Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college professor really used up at 65, when most are put out to pasture? Professor Laurens H. Seelye, of Robert College in Istanbul, discovered that one western U.S. university lists 60 living professors emeritus.* Some must still have their wits about them, he thought; must their talents go to waste...
...time, Low was busy working on the cover story about Greek guerrilla chief Markos (TIME, April 5). So Mrs. Low who was with him in Athens, rushed to Prague to recoup their possessions. The following account of the difficulties she encountered has just reached us from Istanbul where the Lows are now located. It offers, I think, some interesting intelligence on the situation in Czechoslovakia...
Among the 22 passengers on the initial flight, publicity-wise Pan Am had included 15 bigwig publishers and editors. They had taken tea with Prime Minister Clement Attlee, dined with China's Generalissimo, supped with General Douglas MacArthur. With lesser luminaries, they wined & dined in Istanbul, Calcutta, Manila and Honolulu...
...Collector. Gulbenkian was reputedly born in Istanbul, the son of an Armenian rug peddler, by one version; according to another, the descendant of a long line of Armenian kings. He became a British subject in 1902 and went to King's College, London, although the story still lingers that he entered England as a rug peddler, smuggling in his three-year-old son in a carpet. In any case, Gulbenkian early made himself a useful agent in the Near East for the late Sir Henri Deterding, Royal Dutch-Shell's head...
...against Russian pressure. Turkey is not going to demobilize until it is pretty sure that the Truman Doctrine will be consistent U.S. policy and that the Russians will understand that the U.S. intends, by money, leadership and arms, to protect other nations against Russian aggression. The Leyte was in Istanbul harbor last week not as a threat but as a symbol of that U.S. security policy...