Word: reade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of "The Ark on Ararat" [TIME, April 25] was very erroneous. I do not know how well the artist has read the Bible, but if he will turn and read Genesis 6:16, he will find that the instructions were to put the door in the side and not in the end as he has. Also I think he will find that the Ark only contained one window and not the plurality he has pictured . . . The indication is that Noah opened the (one) window...
Those who live beyond the reach of fast surface mail get their copies of TIME Canadian each week by air-so that they can read the news while it is still fresh. For instance, eight copies go via Canadian Pacific Air Lines to subscribers in Aklavik above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories near the Beaufort Sea, where Subscriber J. C. Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon...
...Hendl had a wonderful evening, but when it was over, his house was completely bare of food and liquor. The next day, Mrs. Hendl, who is a painter, decided to do a still life of the roses which Munch had brought. The story eventually hit the papers, and Munch read it is a Swiss journal while he was a in Geneva. He kept the clipping, and months later when he saw Hendl, he presented the article and demanded his painting. When he saw it, Munch was quite impressed, and promised to show it to his friend Please. Since their...
...Multitudes. Finally, surrounded by his close friends at lunch at the Savoy, Conductor Beecham got into a vivace finale. After the toastmaster had read telegrams from Jan Sibelius and Richard Strauss, he roared, "Where's the one from Mozart?" When one speaker said Sibelius had once remarked that Beecham was the "greatest living conductor," Sir Thomas chirped "Hear! Hear...
...father from his home state of Massachusetts to the Klondike and finally to California, where the family decided to settle down. His school years were a running revolt against teachers and formal education, but he did get through high school. He tried boxing, took some thorough beatings, decided to read for the law after a deputy district attorney bawled him out for taking part in an unlicensed fight. One day when he was 21, he showed up with two black eyes to take his bar exam, passed it and hung out his shingle...