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...milk, and live in eight, mud-walled villages scorched by the gusts of the shamal. No one knows for certain to whom Buraimi belongs. Northward lies Trucial Oman, "protected" by the British; westward lies Saudi Arabia; all around is uncharted waste, so desolate that even the Arabs call it Rub al Khali, the Empty Quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRUCIAL OMAN: Battle for Buraimi | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

Sunday morning, after the Liberal Union had spent a large sum advertising "Manon," George Meyer of Boston's Hub Films informed Jorrin that he owned the theatrical showing rights for all six New England states and would sue the HLU if the picture were shown. Both Brandon and Rub Films have been awarded limited rights from the film's national distributor, Discina International. "There are obviously conflicting rights," noted Jorrin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threatened Suit Cancels HLU Film | 4/21/1953 | See Source »

...Duca's first steps was to get a new medium for his youngsters, something that they could work in more easily than ordinary oils or water colors. He hit on a resin plastic which stays bright when dry, does not rub off, or run together when slopped on. The kids took to it like ducks to water. Sometimes Duca herds his charges to museums to see what grown-up professionals have accomplished, but he lets the boys draw their own conclusions from their observations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting for Fun | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

They're experts at sleeping--they learn that in Body Mechanics. They study rope jumping under experts in Intermediate Tennis. They learn how to pick up articles from the floor properly and how to sit down. (You walk up to the chair, turn around, rub the back of your calf against it to make sure it's still there, and then you slowly ease into the chair while keeping your back rigid...

Author: By Ama Zon, | Title: 'Cliffe Girls Should Wrestle, Not Sleep | 4/9/1953 | See Source »

...Pile of Bones. Englishmen took in the gruesome details of the latest crime avidly, but with a practiced palate-it was, both in its profusion of corpses and in certain other characteristics, so very like London. Chicago had its quick rub-out with the .45 slug rubbed in garlic, New York its cement-festooned body in the East River, Paris its crime passionnel. But the sex sadist given to mutilation and multiple murders is a London specialty-there had been, for example, Jack the Ripper, the most storied of all, with at least six corpses in 1888; the Blackout Killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Strangler of Notting Hill | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

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