Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beacon Light (Sun. 10 p.m., Mutual). The Grand Lodge of Masons breaks into radio to dramatize its campaign for rheumatic fever research. Guests: Walter Hampden, Reinald Werrenrath...
THERON H. RICE Grand Haven, Mich...
...Wagah, a little town on the grand trunk highway between Amritsar and Lahore on the Pakistan side of the border, armed Baluchi troops, all certified Moslems from the frontier territory of Baluchistan, called a loud halt to travelers trying to go through the border. A mile down the road, at Atari, armed Dogras, who are a Punjabi Hindu tribe, searched and checked all Pakistan-bound vehicles. The mile between the two posts was no man's land. On the Pakistan side, just behind an improvised guardhouse, a bulldozer was digging graves for Moslem bodies which arrived from the India...
Absolved of obscenity: Poets Gaius Valerius Catullus and Vincent McHugh; by a grand jury in Manhattan. The jury threw out a suit brought last spring by famed Dirt Chaser John S. Sumner, who had objected to a phallic "Suite from Catullus" in Adaptei McHugh's book, The Blue Hen's Chickens, Sumner, who caid he was "not at all surprised," was now operating his battered old Society for the Suppression of Vice under a slightly more delicate name: the Society to Maintain Public Decency...
Speakaluminum. In the National Hardware Show in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, buying pressure was so heavy that one hapless manufacturer of duralumin folding rulers rigged up a booth to resemble a speakeasy, barred the door to all but established customers. Despite this, his orders by the end of the second day amounted to 180,000, enough to keep his plant busy for 45 days...