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...Amsterdam hotel, Lenora Lafayette, 26, American Negro soprano, stopped to answer the phone before going out for some lunch. Could she get to London by 7 p.m. prompt? Soprano Lafayette said yes: "And then they told me I had to leave the hotel by 2 to catch a plane. You know, I was so excited when I put the phone down, I just ran around the room for ten minutes...
...only take a little trouble to change their course ... I am really sick with the whole affair." The bomber people were actually about the King's business: they were hitting at Communist guerrillas who threatened the security of Malaya, and so the Sultan's letter got a prompt unofficial reply from an R.A.F. pilot: "Who the hell is the Sultan anyway? He wouldn't be where he is now if it weren't for the R.A.F. and the security forces." In a terrible temper, the Sultan decided to take his revenge upon the British: he ordered...
...League presidents will, though, debate this issue in their forthcoming meeting. Although most of the group still considers football as a fall sport only, two considerations seem to dictate the prompt re-authorization of spring workous...
...advised as the layman in serious pain who doses himself with home remedies. Any prospective witness who is doubtful about the desirability of answering questions should feel that it is essential for him to obtain the professional advice of a lawyer, to whom he makes prompt and full disclosure of the facts. Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor Arthur E. Suthoriand Professor...
Liveliest experiment in the U.S. theater last season-and the greatest triumph-was the brilliant, bare-stage reading of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell (TIME, Nov. 5, 1951). Flushed by such success, Producer Paul Gregory has launched a prompt successor: Stephen Vincent Benét's 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinning narrative poem, John Brown's Body. With Charles Laughton again directing and with another name cast-Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey, Tyrone Power-the production opened in California in November, plans to get to Broadway in February. Meanwhile, it is playing one-night stands throughout...