Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. George Jean Nathan, 73, dean of Broadway drama critics, renowned as one of the century's most entrenched and articulate bachelors ("Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work in the brewery"); and Julie Haydon, 45, wraithlike stage actress; after an 18-year courtship, a nine-year engagement; aboard the cruise liner Santa Rosa in Caribbean waters...
After he became TIME'S Southeast Asia correspondent in 1950, Dowling commuted between his Singapore base and the wars in Malaya and Indo-China. His painstaking dispatches for TIME'S cover stories on France's GENERAL JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY (Sept. 24, 1951) and GENERAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER of Malaya (Dec. 15, 1952) were models of thoughtful reporting...
...head full of facts and names, and the Faure government steeled itself to act against the suspects, some of whom were reputedly lodged in embarrassingly high places. As a start, special detectives sent from Paris arrested a man long suspected of organizing counter-terrorism- one time Chief Police Inspector Jean Delrieu, once head of the Casablanca police unit charged with combatting Arab terrorism...
...years ago when the trading firm of Les Fils de Basile Obegi of Syria placed an order with a New York export house for 100 four-wheel-drive jeeps (which cannot legally be exported to Iron Curtain countries). The jeeps' purported destination was Beirut, where a merchant named Jean Maghamez supposedly wanted them for local farmers. Willys-Overland Export Corp. of Toledo cabled its Syrian dealer, Levant Motors, to investigate the $150,000 order. Levant Motors discovered that Consignee Ma-ghamez was just a front man, and replied that it suspected Les Fils de Basile Obegi was planning...
...feed their young. They shoot only pointblank, not to kill but to paralyze, since the victim is to be sealed into the huntress' lair with her egg, and the larva thrives only on fresh meat. Though only such consecrated bug watchers as France's late great Entomologist Jean Henri Fabre get in on these magnificent shoots, British Science Writer John Crompton, author of the excellent Life of the Spider (TIME, July 3, 1950), has put all the bug watchers' best stories in this urbane and well-written book...