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...business," says one of them (with some chagrin, now), "weather had never stopped us. We'd work through a blizzard or duster. So when we started on offshore oil, we said: 'To hell with the weather. What's a hurricane, anyway? Nothing but a big ol wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: THE OILMEN & THE SEA | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...hardy band of leftists gathered in Manhattan to huzzah for party-lining Singer Paul (Ol' Man River) Robeson, 56, and to protest the State Department travel ban that just keeps him rolling along in the U.S. only. Among the loudly cheered highlights of the rally was a cabled tribute to Robeson from aging (65) Comedian Charlie Chaplin, now in self-exile in Switzerland. A day later, for his "extraordinary service" in behalf of the Kremlin, Chaplin, along with Soviet Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, was awarded a peace prize (value: about $14,000) by the Communist-sponsored World Peace Council. Charlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

author-lautel I drink-dlinob I have-labob you-ol woman-vom I write-penob this-at two-tel house-dom four-fol man-man and-e scholar-julel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Going to the Point? | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...Fingers ol Dr. T. Why a small boy hates piano teachers, inventively told in Technicolor (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...insuperable. The simple fact, of course, is that . . . Pidgin English has become a language in its own right, and no matter how many pious sentiments are expressed in the U.N. or elsewhere, its use and continued spread cannot be curbed." In other words, no matter how much busybody ol man bilog pies longwey (foreigners) fuss and fume, ol man bilong Nugini will go right on making toktok as they please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Insuperable Pidgin? | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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