Word: runge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Butterfield & Swire inserted an appeasing ad in Hong Kong's Ta Rung Pao. "This humble company," it read, "regrets its conduct in trying to deceive its passengers. Besides guaranteeing that there will be no similar recurrence, it inserts this notice specially in this newspaper to repent and to apologize to the passengers on that trip...
...pages, which Lampy saw fit to squeeze in among the ads, he has rung in a group of his old editors to entertain, to instruct, and to compliment. In one of these are they notably successful, though they do try hard. Their humor for the most part does not evoke a spontaneous "heh-heh" or even a "haw-haw-haw"; it is of the "well, when you come to think of it this is pretty smooth doggerel" variety...
This Fair Place. The British government of Hong Kong, for its part, spared no effort to conciliate the Communists. The influential pro-Communist dailies Ta Rung Pao and Wen Wei Pao print violent, Peking-inspired attacks on the U.S and the U.N. without interference. One of the few U.S. efforts at counter-propaganda, a 15-minute daily Voice of America broadcast, was recently dropped by the Hong Kong radio...
...Germans got back into top-rung international competition, for the first time since World War II, in the two-man world bobsled championships. But not without a preliminary hassle...
Conductor Alessandro's new job puts him a rung up the ladder as U.S. conductorships go (he will have $320,000 to spend on San Antonio's symphony and opera seasons, as compared to $157,000 at Oklahoma City). Says Alessandro: "There comes a time in a musical career when a change is best. You never know when this will bethere are no Drew Pearsons in the musical world. But it is best for the orchestra as well as the conductor...