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...colossal, copper-domed viceregal palace. A mighty and beglamored figure, Britain's deputy over 352,000,000 Indians, he reviewed Indian troops of the New Delhi area, conferred with his Executive Council, talked with his private secretary Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, fed worms to his pet turtle, Jonah, whom Mohandas Gandhi once asked especially to see. Like the rest of India's millions, the Viceroy was waiting in the heat, waiting while the Japanese won Java and Rangoon, waiting to see whether, among other things, he would keep his post-waiting for London to make up its mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: How Much Longer? | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...vindicate the story of Jonah and the whale, Chicago's Pharmacology Professor Eugene Maximilian Karl Ceiling crawled through the gullet of a dead cetacean to prove it could be done. "It was a pretty slimy trip," he said last week, "but there was plenty of room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Persecution | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...individualism, Noah Wells makes clear the fact that Noah Lammock has become "an overwhelming menace." The rest is almost unmitigated breakdown. God plays the harmonium, Lammock preaches, underfed rhinoceroses lie about "like huge unpacked leather bags," the whole voyage disintegrates into weak comic strip. At length God identifies the Jonah, the unstrainable fly in the human ointment. He is "the essential treacherous cunning in man, the 'save a bit out of it' soul, the dodger of obligations, the profiteering partner, the undying Ananias, the sweater of opportunity, the area sneak, the bounder on the make, the official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Leaky Ark | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Bible Tales (Golden Gate Quartet; Victor album; $2). For fans of Noah, Jonah, other nightclub spirituals (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...rhythmically deploys, slapping and tapping the while, closes ranks after he steps up to the microphone. Besides their manual and pedal percussion effects, the Golden Gate Quartet beat out the rhythm by precisely controlling the intake and outgo of their breaths. Their most popular songs are Samson, Noah, Job, Jonah, Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho, and a secular number-The Preacher and the Bear-with an old snapper: Now Lord-if you can't help me, for goodness sake, don't you help that bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Goldert Gate in Washington | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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