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...year-old reader of Treasure Island, who had become violently sick at his stomach from seeing the real thing. The Wing Sang's agents, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., promised to repay the passengers who had chipped in ransom money. British, U.S. and Chinese Nationalist ships kept a lookout for a handsome buccaneer, wearing brown leather gloves and a gold wristwatch, who made short speeches...
Last year Herr Schacht, little the worse for wear and ever on the lookout for money, journeyed to Indonesia. The newborn island republic was hoping for an economic wizard to reinvigorate its lagging export trade and sickly home economy. Schacht and his prim wife put up at the rambling Hotel des Indes in hot, grubby Jakarta (with the government paying all his expenses, about $20,000). For three months he labored...
...History and Literature, died April 1950. Matthiessen was teaching the undergraduate Shakespeare course, English 123, at that time. He also carried a very heavy teaching and research load in American literature, and it is understood that the English and History and Literature departments are still on the on the lookout for a man in that field...
Trinity has been on the lookout for a new rector since June, when the Rev. Frederic S. Fleming, 65, announced his retirement after serving the 254-year-old parish since 1932. Trinity is traditionally a steppingstone to the bishopric of New York, the church's richest diocese. High Churchman Heuss, who built up his department of Christian education from a staff of two to a staff of 50 in four years, has already been mentioned as a possible second Suffragan Bishop of New York...
Today, thousands of admirers still pay homage at the tomb of Buffalo Bill on Lookout Mountain near Denver. But not one man in a hundred thousand knows the name of the remarkable, gnomelike promoter without whom Buffalo Bill would never have existed. The Great Rascal is Ned Buntline's first full-dress biography, and the galloping glitter of his career more than makes up for the limping prose in which Author Monaghan describes...