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...turned out to be James Fidler,* a squarish, stocky young fellow with pleasantly twinkling eyes, carefully combed wavy hair and a professorial pointer in his hand. After a flourish of music and an announcer's explanation of the program, Fidler appeared on the telescreen, briskly went to work on the six maps that surrounded...
Anent your story, Decent Burial [TIME, Jan. 12], those genuinely concerned over the rackets which flourish upon the dead will be interested in the following...
What Griffin found out filled 24 Vari-Typed columns as the Trib's first "expose" of the year. The Ivy League, wrote Griffin, was "infested with pedagogic termites. . . . Harvard makes almost a fetish of permitting radicalism to flourish, and a visitor is impressed by the prevailing spirit that 'revolution is wonderful...
Farrington, who had made the road flourish, president. He had rebuilt its rickety trackage, spent $100 million for new equipment and other improvements, and sent 20 streamlined Rock Island "Rockets" flashing over its new, heavy-ballast rails. The war boom which helped all railroads had mightily helped the Rock Island. During the last seven years its net profits were more than $80 million...
Different Burmans had different ideas as to what independence meant : a popular actress advocated high-caliber plays which would reform wayward girls; a monk hoped that Buddhism would flourish. But even with British help, the new state will have a hard time enjoying the blessings of sovereignty. Twice a battleground in World War II, Burma emerged with its oil refineries in ruins, its rice and teak exports paralyzed...