Word: halled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the blue and surf-ringed isolation of French-owned Tahiti, Author James Norman Hall (Pitcairn's Island, Mutiny on the Bounty) decided that the world's dirty, teeming and fear-ridden old nests of civilization needed a word of cheer. After noting, with obvious satisfaction, that French Oceania was free of the ships, planes and men which cluttered it up during World War II, he sent TIME two items of news about its people...
While he spoke, the rattle of gunfire echoed through the auditorium. Outside, a handful of Lebanese Communists had picked a fight with the police. They were driven off, but when the session was over the police were not satisfied. Lebanese Communist Mustafa Aris was in the hall as an accredited observer for the World Federation of Trade Unions, and the irate police decided to pick him up and toss him in jail, diplomatic immunity or no. UNESCO's secretariat promptly protested, and while Mustafa languished in stir, the understanding Lebanese government promised that in future, before a UNESCO delegate...
...every child had seemed a model of behavior. That behavior, he concluded, was the result of a chastening caning now & then. So Eric Wildman, who manufactures whipping canes and recently organized Britain's Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment, had felt very much at home at Horsley Hall...
...demanded to know the meaning of this outrage. He would see his lawyers, he said. That was all right with Headmaster Copping. He and the students had planned the incident to give Wildman some of his own medicine. Copping had even trapped Wildman by persuading him that Horsley Hall (a progressive school) tolerated corporal punishment. "I hope he does sue," said Copping. "We only did what he advised as suitable for children...
...State of Israel in May, the orchestra has given 70 concerts, 23 of them on the road. Actually the orchestra is older than the state; it was known as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra when Arturo Toscanini led its first performance twelve years ago. Tel Aviv's Ohel Shem hall, where the orchestra usually plays, holds only 1,100. There the orchestra repeats each concert nine times to accommodate the crowds. It has played on, undismayed by blackouts, air raids, or the impertinent obbligato of small arms fire. In July another American guest conductor, Izler Solomon, conducted a concert...