Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kasim Razvi (TIME, Aug. 30). A meek character in a grey Persian lamb fez and long coat, he looked just as his leader Razvi might look if the fire were gone from his eyes. He was captured the day before war's end with a sword in his hand. Now he was bewildered, crushed. He murmured: "Razvi has deceived...
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was on hand to watch two fillies carry his cerise & white diamonds in their maiden tests (they finished one & two); so was Warren Wright, whose Citation, Coaltown and Free America would all race in the 18-day meeting. Hidden in the crowd near the pari-mutuel betting windows, two Pinkerton agents ignored racing's big names and kept their eyes on the bald bookie in suede shoes...
Home Missions. Many a key Episcopal bishop and layman opposed the program at first, but most who have heard a sample transcript are now enthusiastic. Other Episcopalians will make up their minds during the first 13 weeks of the series, for which the money is on hand. If the show is to be continued, an extra 3% will be asked in the Every-Member-Canvass pledges for 1949. The program will cost about $15,000 a week, over $11,000 of it for radio time at regular commercial rates. Musicians, technicians and minor actors will receive regular rates; the stars...
...illustrate, Goldsmith took a Maggie & Jiggs strip of last May. The first frame showed Jiggs with his right hand in his pocket. Explained Analyst Goldsmith: "A signal to buy."* Two rings of smoke were coming from Jiggs's cigar ("The market will go up in the second hour of trading"). In the second frame, Maggie is saying: "I don't see why you can't get your name in the paper, too" ("Buy International Paper"). In the last frame, Jiggs's cigar smoke is still rising, indicating a steady market at the close...
...many years he has lived in Rome, making his home in the convent of the Little Company of Mary, on Celian Hill, not far from the Coliseum. The streetcars clanging past his window disturb him not at all as he sits in his simple room, writing in a hand still firm. A Catholic living in a Catholic retreat, he calls his religion "a matter of sympathy and traditional allegiance, not of philosophy." Says he mischievously: "I believe I am the despair of the nuns here, who hope I'll become pious on my deathbed...