Word: newark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shower) to receive an official reception from Mayor William O'Dwyer. In 72 hours he spoke at three banquets and three luncheons, paid post-midnight calls on a series of nightclubs, went to three museums, visited the Arab library at Princeton University and inspected the pressrooms of the Newark News...
...Time for Questions. A unique blend of Mediterranean and Oriental cultures, Macao is the Far East's oldest European colony. It is smaller than Manhattan, and its population (300,000), mostly Chinese, is less than Newark's. Four centuries ago, it became Europe's first port in China. In the 19th Century it was eclipsed by Hong Kong, which is four hours southeast by steamship. It fell into a somnolent decadence, lived shabbily on gambling and other shady practices, until even in the Portuguese homeland it became known as the shameful "city of sin and opium...
...Dunc Taylor had taken the one-a-day train out of Oxford, Md., a quiet fishing hamlet on the Eastern Shore, and gone to work for TIME. Born in East Orange, N.J., educated at Brown University ('26), he had done a reporter's hitch on the Newark Star-Eagle and Brooklyn Daily Times, spent eight years editing a detective story magazine, and had retired to Oxford to free lance. "In 1939," he says, "the world seemed to be going to hell. I couldn't go on writing fiction...
Scheduled to fly to the U.S. this month on an official visit, swarthily handsome young (30) Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Persia, made some occidental preparations. He hired a pressagent, white-haired Henry Suydam, who took a leave as chief editorial writer for the Newark Evening News and began setting them up in Washington's National Press Club...
...Newark's reaction...