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...businessmen bought a four-column ad in the New York Times to assure "worried friends" that, despite the hurricane (TIME, Sept. 29), their town was still on the map. To be sure, there were "some windows broken," but "reports of storm-damage were, fortunately, vastly overestimated." Said the come-hither caption on one of the ad's four post-storm pictures: "All the historic landmarks-the lacy balconies and secluded patios-still are here to delight our visitors...
...forbidden city," where, by the somewhat purple account of his son, languished thousands of doe-eyed beauties of royal blood. Papa told Karl: "When I entered their quarters with my foot drill and instrument box . . . a whole flock of them immediately came running to greet me [with] a come-hither smile full of promise." Later, when the young dentist scaled the betel off the teeth of a native girl in Bangkok, he unwittingly started a fad for gleaming teeth. He was soon swamped with "shy little Siamese ladies" in search of the smile of beauty and the smile of health...
...protagonist, a singularly strange young man apparently dissatisfied with just about everything, who journeys hither and you about the globe in search of his soul. Tyrone Power tries very hard and succeeds in being adequate, if nothing more. Most of the remainder of a large and expensive cast, which includes Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Herbert Marshall, and John Payne, among innumerable others, gives the same sort of not-particularly-exciting performance. Clifton Webb, in a part which seems almost to have been custom-tailored for him, makes the most of every one of his opportunities, and should merit the greatest...
...problems of Europe cannot be solved by shifting frontiers hither and thither as has been done for many centuries, always resulting in new wars. The tendency to create closed national states by wholesale expulsions of entire populations surrounded by insurmountable walls, will inevitably lead to general impoverishment and disturbances of international relations. On the other hand, if the peace is to be a lasting one, frontiers must cease to be impediments to the free flow of men, merchandise, ideas and news...
...clear the earth with speed to spare, says Professor Herrick, a space ship should start at 8 miles per second. Once clear, it becomes a miniature planet with an orbit of its own. The gravitation fields of surrounding bodies pull it hither & yon. By taking advantage of these pulls, the space navigator can guide his ship...