Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the war turned the regiment against the British. By 1953, he had only one superior among the Communists of the south-a terrorist named Ah Kuk, and known as "Shorty." Shorty's own bodyguards soon took care of that. Learning that there was $66,000 on their master's head, they decided to deliver that head-minus the body-to the police. After that, Hor Lung was in complete command of scores of villages in Johore...
...street pedlars, the factory girls singing their sentimental songs. Have all these nothing to say to us?" For his pains he was at first dismissed as "a parish-pump composer." But he brought stature to the parish pump, and in time the musical world acknowledged him a master...
Unmentioned in the agreement was the fate of Van Beuningen's most sensational buy, a Vermeer Last Supper that Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans in 1947 identified as having been painted by Art Forger Hans van Meegeren (TIME, July 30, 1945 et seq.). The master faker's masterpiece is currently stored in the basement of the museum that Rotterdamers will henceforth know as the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum...
...different career and also has a different personality. Ohio-born Jack Gordon, an easy-to-meet boss with a passion for mechanical perfection, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922, the same year resigned because ships were few and the Navy encouraged young ensigns to leave. Earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, Gordon joined G.M.'s Cadillac division as a laboratory technician. By 1946 he had become Cadillac's general manager, had also helped develop the gas-saving high-compression engine that boosted sales and laid to rest...
...Attention. The high school films Combustion and Chlorine focus narrowly on their subjects, show only a pair of hands-those of Phillips Academy (Andover) Chemistry Master Elbert Weaver -performing experiments. Explanations are amplified by animated drawings showing molecular action. Weaver's scripts are tough enough to keep students out of that double-feature daze, call for as much attention as a classroom lecture. The films present no chemical formulae and do not show a periodic table-these can be handled better by textbooks and classroom charts. The Manufacturing Chemists' Association, which commissioned the films (cost: $20,000 each...