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...Panchen Lama,* Buddha of Boundless Light for 10,000,000 Tibetans and Mongolians, had quite a time at his enthronement. Because the affair took place at Kum Bum Lamasery in remote Hwangyuan, China-which is practically out of this world-it took nearly three months for the full story to reach the U.S. Present at the enthronement was the Rev. Victor Guy Plymire, a longtime American missionary. After patiently waiting through eight hours of ceremony and gift-giving (the presents ranged from precious silver ornaments to a sheep stomach filled with butter), Missionary Plymire was finally permitted to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Plain facts like this are one good reason why more than 3,000,000 U.S. radio homes tune in The Army Hour on Sunday after noons. The show has the authority of a headquarters communique. It ignores ho kum, heroics, gags. One year old this week, it has given the home front a pretty good idea of how the Army has been put together, how it uses its matériel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Army Hour | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Bequeathed to Cinemactress Mae West by the late Oscar Monroe Abbott, a Chicago businessman, were a diamond and pearl stickpin, "my sincere good wishes and a cordial invitation to kum up and see muh some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...lama of the Kum Bum Monastery vanished into thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Miracle Man | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...Burlington House, Jan. 5 to March 1, 1931. He went further and did what no Persian monarch before him dreamed of doing: gave official sanction for the Exhibition's experts to select loan exhibits from the Royal collection, Imperial Library, National Museum, the famed mosques of Kum, Ardebil and Mashad's Imam Reiza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Persia on Parade | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

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