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Fortunately, though he can't quite save the day, Cuckoo Clark notably brightens the evening. Hurling himself headlong into any role he can find a costume for -monk, chancellor, Foreign Legionnaire, laundress-Bobby leers at the actresses, spits on the plot, and keeps hurrying nowhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Moscow-trained Viet Nam Leader Ho Chih-minh did not mourn for Thinh, the statesman, or for Thinh, the rich rice grower. Ho said acidly: "The loss of an excellent physician ... is regrettable." But warrior monk Thierry d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner in Indo-China (who had been granted leave by the Vatican from his duties as head of French Carmelite monks to take a naval command in the first years of the war), knelt at a flag-and flower-draped coffin, solemnly kissed the cold forehead of Dr. Thinh. Said he: "In an Annamite country, it requires infinite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Death in the Monsoon | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...shorthand, etc. The results are varied and interesting. Not long ago one of our OBs left to become an instructor at Amherst College, another went to South America to be a professional wrestler, an OG blossomed into a Conover model, and an OB who had departed to become a monk returned because he found that life too quiet after the corridors of the TIME & LIFE building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Constantly, in this persistent dream, Elwes and the monk kept saying: "It was built for God; it must be returned to God." Constantly, as he recovered, the conviction grew upon Elwes that God had ruined him physically because he had made ruinous use of his talent as an artist. God had prepared him to become responsible for a great work of art-the restoration of Fountains Abbey and its rededication as a monastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bastion | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...hill village of Shirakawa, Hikosaku Matsumoto, 62, is called "Hyakkan Jii San"-100-kan oldster-because of his boast that he can lift 100 kan (825 Ibs.). His undisciplined white beard and scholarly bald dome make him look more like an elderly monk than an athlete. His nickname delights him so much that, after the manner of Tony Galento's boxing trunks, he has "Hyakkan" written in Chinese characters down the front of his athletic blouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: 100-Kan Oldster | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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