Word: goates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home of Ghanshyam Dass Birla, a wealthy Indian industrialist. The elderly Pied Piper, who had been up until 2 a.m. writing reports and memoranda, was sleepy but good-humored. He was given an hour to get ready. During that time he had a breakfast of orange juice and goat's milk. He heard a Sanskrit hymn and a few words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita (sacred Hindu poem), the Koran and an Urdu primer under...
...Pied Piper (20th Century-Fox) pipes sumptuous Monty ("The Beard") Woolley out of his wheel chair for the first time since he began playing The Man Who Came to Dinner (TIME, Jan. 26) three years ago. The change is good for him. The belligerent old nanny goat turns into a very human portrait of a crotchety, kindly Englishman caught in France by the Nazi invasion. But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children...
Kind Commander. A black-hulled U-boat, its conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued...
...last year Fate brought Greece worse enemies than kings. The Goat knew they might even swarm over the sea to Crete, where weary-faced Greek and British soldiers were trying frantically to prepare for them. The Goat knew, too who the Man was that the English brought one night to his mountain cottage. Next morning he pointed down toward the valley; it had sprouted parachutes, brilliantly red, green and white. The English said they must take the Man at once to a secret rendezvous where a warship was expected. So the Goat guided them over crooked goat tracks only...
Last week news came to King George II's entourage in the U.S. that the Nazis had caught the Goat and shot him. Said young John Tsouderos, the Prime Minister's son, who had been in the party the Goat guided: "Capitano Volanis was a good, good man. Now he is dead That is the New Order...