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After recently completing a vacation trip through Canada, I headed back to Canada again almost immediately. This time the trip was in line of duty. At Ste.-Adèle-en-haut, Que., we had scheduled a meeting of the people who work on TIME'S Canadian edition...
...Masterpieces of the 20th Century" exhibit (TIME, June 2) and they were worth millions. Albertini cat-footed to the doorway and froze in his tracks. Visible in the glow from the windows were two men cutting masterpieces out of their frames with razors. Albertini whipped out his pistol, cried, "Haut les mains...
Last week energetic Dr. Douglas Quick, consulting radiologist and cancer specialist at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, had a triumph to announce for his hospital. The Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga, which controls most of the world's limited supply of radium, had promised the hospital a five-year loan of the biggest chunk of radium (50 grams-about 1/10 lb.)* ever amassed. Estimated value...
Along toward dawn one morning last week, Screen Actor Humphrey Bogart was sitting, in person, in Manhattan's not quite haut monde saloon, the Stork Club. It was the hour when it is virtually impossible to decide whether a rumba band goes bonkle bonkle tonk, or tonkle tonkle bonk; when waiters' arches ache, and blondes brush the hair out of their eyes in a queenly way. Bogart, who was sipping happily on a drink, decided to send out for two 22-lb. stuffed pandas...
...available translations, of which the Harvard Dramatic Club has found a particularly unauthentic specimen. Thomas Austey Guthrie's conception of Moliere necessitates the frequent addition of his own prose, as well as incorrect and unidiomatic translation of the text itself. What reason could there be for translating "Parleral-je haut?" as "Is it permitted to speak in Madamo's presence...