Word: malayan
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...starter, the new show offered a glossy version of Somerset Maugham's Malayan melodrama, The Letter. Madeleine Carroll, playing her first TV role, was the unfaithful wife who murders her lover. Though the show had its little flaws, mostly caused by first-night jitters, it was a production of considerable finish and skill. In a medium that could use more good actors, directors and scripts, Theater promised to be a first-rate drawing card. Already programmed are Jane Wyatt in Kitty Foyle, Elliott Nugent in The Male Animal and Producer-Narrator Montgomery himself in Ride the Pink Horse. Budgeted...
...British lieutenant colonel who had escaped from the Japanese and was hiding in a Malayan mangrove swamp, wrote a letter to the Japanese occupation governor. Would His Excellency be so good as to mail to London the Englishman's diaries, which had been taken from him by his former Jap captors...
...severe invasion of the hemisphere, in Cuba. At that time they imported a parasitic insect from Malaya that destroyed the pest. But for Mexico, where the fly turned up in 1935 in west coast Sinaloa, the old parasite was no good. Since then U.S. scientists have found a new Malayan parasite, a wasp whose larvae will hatch inside the Mexican fly's larvae and devour them. This week a shipment of wasps was on its way to Mexico for the test...
...three people that manage to find 4000 jobs between them within a year might be considered somewhat unusual in the field of employment. Especially when those jobs range from walking dogs to teaching Malayan...
After Words, Deeds. The plan worked out at Calcutta called for simultaneous revolts in Burma and Malaya. Three months after the outbreak of the Malayan revolt, Indonesia's Communists were to strike. As coordination center for the drive a 26-man Soviet Legation, largest in Southeast Asia, was set up in Bangkok...