Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coming up the grand trunk highway from New Delhi, you could see as far away as 14 miles clouds of smoke hanging over Amritsar. Now & then the high golden cupola of the Sikh's Golden Temple would glint through the pall. After three days of rioting, Amritsar's streets were barricaded, piled with debris. Whole rows of shops were gutted. Amritsar's famous hide bazaar was still burning, and its textile row, where merchants from all India came for cloth, was in smoking ruins...
This may or may not have surprised Clark Gable. Possibly moved to speak by the approach of income-tax day, the Grand Old Man of handsome young men declared that any year he cleared more than $1,000 he felt lucky. He understood that he was getting $6,000 a week at the moment, but: "A single man pays out almost 90% of it for taxes. . . . My agent gets 10 . . . my business manager. . . ." He wasn't complaining, understand-"but people have the wrong idea about movie salaries...
...lost if its monkeyshines are not performed as gravely as minuets. Actor-Director Gielgud's production, unlike most, is well aware of this. Until near the end of the play (when everyone indulges in a little burlesque), the cast plays with very straight faces and very grand airs; and the effect is delightful...
...second stop of his current tour of midwest Harvard Clubs, William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, will address the Toledo Club tonight in a general talk on the college sports scene. Following tonight's appearance, Bingham will journey to Grand Rapids, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Omaha in a series of one-night stands...
Died. Max Maurey, 77, French playwright and founder of Paris' famed Grand-Guignol (see THEATER) ; in Neuilly, France...