Word: nan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Cyril Rudolph Jarre, 74, Roman Catholic Archbishop (since 1929) of Tsi-nan, Shantung Province, China; of pleurisy and bronchial complications; in Tsinan four weeks ago. The Communists jailed German-born Archbishop Jarre nine months ago "for sabotaging the church-reform movement," refused his request for the church's last rites...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:15 p.m., NBC). Beethoven's Ninth, with Nan Merriman, Jan Peerce. Conductor: Toscanini...
...around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu The U.S. will probably swing over to the new words by 1952's fall. Until then, risking confusion, the American pilots can spell...
Christopher Wood was only 29 when he killed himself in 1930-a bright, charming Englishman who had apparently failed to make the grade as an artist. His mother gave many of Wood's paintings away. A man named Rex de C. Nan Kivell, director of London's Redfern Gallery, quietly bought them up. Last week the Redfern was showing Wood's paintings to admiring crowds, and selling them for as much as ?1,500 apiece...
...NAN D. SPEIR Westhampton Beach, L.I., N.Y. ¶TIME'S map department, also informed by the National Geographic Society that the railroad does not exist, will henceforth regard its Japanese and Korean source maps with skepticism...