Word: mange
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Asia, and General Ne Win was in no mood to borrow trouble with his Red Chinese neighbors on the north. Red China and Burma dispute their common border, and Ne Win's army is trying to rout out Communist guerrillas. Red China's Ambassador Li I-mang has lately complained to the Burmese for permitting the showing of the Nat "King" Cole film China Gate, and even protested when a soccer team from Hong Kong played in Rangoon. And so in Burma Tito got a formal 21-gun salute and the usual round of dinners and conferences...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced the award of the Philip Wash-burn Prize for 1951-52 to John H. Mang-field '51' for' his thesis entitled, "Jacabo Sadoleto. The Limits of Toleration in the Sixteenth Century." The prize is the income from the fund...
Died. Sir Harry Lauder, 79, stubby, bandy-legged Scottish comic whose pawky burr and lilting ditties (Roamin-in the Gloamin', Wee Hoose 'Mang the Heather, I Love a Lassie) endeared him to millions of vaudeville-goers and record listeners the world over; after long illness; in Strathaven (rhymes with raven), Scotland. Reared in poverty, the onetime mill boy and coal miner waggled his kilt and twirled his famous crooked stick to delight three generations. He acquired a fortune and (wrote Winston Churchill) "by his inspiring songs and valiant life . . . rendered measureless service to the Scottish race...