Word: posts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kong. They would give the colony its mightiest array of sea power since war's end. The British are resigned to the fact that Hong Kong, if they hold on to it, will be a British fortress for years-they only hope that it can be a trading post at the same time. So far, the Chinese Communists have respected British power-and Hong Kong's usefulness to them as a source of supplies from the outside world. But in his mansion up on "The Peak," overlooking the colony, Sir Alexander admitted that the Reds might change their...
...system. A typical crisis arose last week when a young Chinese telephone worker claimed he had been slapped by a British supervisor. The worker's union threatened to strike unless the supervisor apologized and was fired. After five days' negotiations, the Briton apologized, was transferred to another post. "A most damnable time for something like this to happen," said a British labor adviser, "most damnable." Jittery Britons sighed with relief when the damnable incident passed without major trouble...
Yearning for a little post-election privacy 59-year-old Bill O'Dwyer last week whisked Sloan Simpson into a green and white police plane and flew off into the wild blue yonder. The press was caught flatfooted. Two hours later the City Hall gave out a statement: "The mayor and Miss Sloan Simpson are at the Gideon Putnam Hotel in Saratoga Springs, where they will be the guests of Mr. & Mrs. Martin J. Sweeney." Guessing at an elopement, a swarm of newsmen and photographers lit out for Saratoga, there cornered the flustered mayor. Was it wedding bells that...
...reason for the zither dither: the catchy, twangy background music that British Cinema Director Carol Reed (Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol) had worked into his new smash hit, The Third Man. The picture demanded music appropriate to post-World War II Vienna, but Director Reed had made up his mind to avoid schmalzy, heavily orchestrated waltzes. In Vienna one night Reed listened to a wine-garden zitherist named Anton Karas, was fascinated by the jangling melancholy of his music...
...Research and Development Board supervises the investigation of new war techniques and weapons for the government. The post was held until early November by former MIT President Karl T. Compton who retired because of ill health. Compton left MIT a year ago to take the post...