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...kris," with his 96 relatives. Among the cargo were several cases of Stanley's favorite Madeira and a frogged coat which he intended to wear when the white Pasha was sighted. Stanley led the expedition by sounding a piercing whistle, "a kind of marine foghorn with a huge gong." While Stanley's steamer chugged up the Congo, Emin made preparations to receive his visitors. By his calculations, they would arrive...
There will be plenty of places to turn for the first round of evidence: witness the Business School student who is currently conducting his personal look-see into group insurance possibilities. Probing the University community for telling case histories should comprise a "must." In advance of the opening gong the opposing contentions, in addition, form a skeletal controversy for all to sec. On the one hand the Hygiene Department holds that its 113 beds in constant readiness for epidemic or abnormal accident occurrence constitute protection of the profoundest kind. The Department's detractors talk of more comprehensive schemes within...
...Paderewski cover rang the gong and succeeding ones convinced the editors that this was the kind of cover that more nearly typified TIME'S kind of journalism. In the beginning, Artist Baker set down his view of what he was trying to do. It is worth repeating here as the credo for a TIME cover...
...Britain's theaters and 50% of its moviemaking. It holds in fee tributary production, distribution and exhibition companies in Canada, South Africa, Australia and the U.S. The sun never sets on the emblem of his pictures: a gilded muscleman (ex-Boxer "Bombardier" Wells) swatting an eight-foot gong...
Last year the gong rang in some impressive film achievements. Two British films (Henry V and Brief Encounter) were voted among the year's best movies by Manhattan critics. Last week nine other Rank pictures (Odd Man Out, Stairway to Heaven, etc.) were holding down Manhattan cinemansions. And next week Rank's Great Expectations is scheduled to open in Manhattan's massive Radio City Music Hall-the movie world's equivalent of a White House reception for an immigrant...