Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago Correspondent Don Burke closed TIME Inc.'s Cairo bureau and made his exodus from Egypt. During his year there as bureau chief, the war in the Holy Land made things unusually difficult for journalists. The press censorship was intolerable to the point where Egyptian censors even rewrote correspondents' copy to suit themselves ; there were repeated acts of violence against foreigners on the streets of Cairo; TIME was banned for being "unfriendly to the Arab cause" after our May 24 cover story on King Abdullah of Transjordan...
Across the land this week, the U.S. began registering its young men for a new draft-three, years and 16 days after the end of World War II. The first of 9½ million young men between 18 and 25 stood in patient lines. First to register were the 25-year-olds, who would also be the first to be inducted. Thereafter, eligible men would be called in order of age. Most veterans, married men, men with dependents, public officials, research students, farmers and many others would be deferred. As a starter, the Army asked...
...South, not a single newspaper ran the angry series that the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Reporter Ray Sprigle wrote after four weeks of touring the "Land of Jim Crow." Admittedly onesided, his stories of segregation, discrimination and degradation (TIME, Aug. 16) made the South look bad. Last week, the South's side was heard from. Many Southern papers which did not print Sprigle found space to print a Northern Negro publisher's account of his own untroubled tour. And many more were likely to print a rebuttal to Sprigle by Hodding Carter, the able Mississippi editor...
...full-page ad in the New York Times next week to announce it. Its name was Nation's Heritage, its high-flown purpose to illustrate "the whole American panorama -the resources, the living patterns, the culture and the tradition of all the people and of all the land...
...than it does for his literary judgment. Of his own writing, Lord Dunsany once said that it dealt with "the mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins." Bridie Steen deals with a more recognizable geography (the scene is the Irish border county of Fermanagh), but it is a land where sentiment is surrounded by sentimentality...