Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odd Man Out. James Mason and the city of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer and the people he meets (TIME, March...
...relief organizations found impossible. But the A.F.S.C. is itself no meager enterprise. Its 1947 budget amounts to some $8,500,000 (of which $4,928,000 has already been raised). In 30 years, it has spent $60,000,000 in 22 countries on relief and rehabilitation. It employs 600-odd workers (of whom only 32% are Friends...
...instructions for Red Cross workers, embalmers, blood donors, etc.) were handled. Later, he sent and received "personal welfare" transmissions (inquiries about individuals). When the second explosion came at 1:11 a.m. Thursday, Standley flung himself to the floor and went on transmitting in a shower of glass. After 250-odd messages, with the emergency over, dog-tired Standley went off the air and home...
...Odd Man Out. James Mason and the city of Belfast co-star in Carol Reed's brilliant, uneven allegorical melodrama about a fugitive killer and the people he meets (TIME, March...
This is a de luxe anthology written by bookworms for bookworms. The only wolf calls in its pages rise when a bug-eyed bibliomaniac spots an unescorted Gutenberg Bible or First Folio Shakespeare. With the knowingness of a convention of beekeepers discussing the nuptial flight of the queen, 40-odd bibliophiles talk about the designing, the collecting, the stealing and the forging of books. Some of the highlights...