Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cocktail parties the Kerrs, parents of four small boys, get only blank stares when they chatter on about Lassie or Robin Hood or Disneyland. "You won't believe it, but some of these people have never even heard of Oswald Rabbit. I mean, what do you suppose they look...
...organ recital by William Sprigg, organist and assistant professor of music at Hood College, Maryland, will conclude the summer school music series on Thursday August 15th. Sprigg will play works by Hindemith, Messiaen and Vaughan-Williams and will also perform his own composition, Sonata number 1. The concert, which will be held in the Memorial Church at 8:30 p.m., is open to the public without charge, it has been announced...
...little town of Ellenville, N.Y. (pop. 5,000) gulped when Banker William Rose, a self-proclaimed Robin Hood, was charged with allowing overdrafts of $1,200,000 (TIME, Dec. 24), and his Home National Bank was closed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Last week Ellenville gulped again as the FDIC sifted through the remains of Home National (capital: $807,000). To settle Rose's gift-loan of $958,000 to the nearby Anjopa Paper Co., the FDIC agreed on a $396,000 installment-plan repayment. FDIC had no other choice; Anjopa's total worth is only...
Barrel-chested, walrus-mustached K.I. Singh, 54, onetime Indian army clerk and practicing homeopathic physician, earned the sobriquet "Robin Hood of the Himalayas" when he began parceling out land to peasant farmers during a nationwide revolt against the autocratic Rana dynasty in 1950. Worried by Singh's deeds of derring-do as head of a band of ragged Nepalese army irregulars, nervous Indian army "observers" stationed in Nepal clapped him into jail. He escaped the Indians, but was picked up again. One night in 1952 Singh broke jail and led a coup that captured the capital's airfield...
...with India), and at the Bandung Conference Chou En-lai agreed to return Singh and his followers to Nepal. Singh arrived in Katmandu to the sound of brass bands and cheering thousands, found that corruption and inefficiency in local government had enhanced the memory of him as a Robin Hood. To stimulate the legend of his past military feats, he took to swaggering about town wearing a pair of six-shooters and cradling a 12-gauge shotgun...