Word: scrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Chungking for the occasion came a scroll which, inscribed in President Chiang Kai-shek's own hand, bore a happy token for the future of China House and U.S.-Chinese friendship. Wrote the Generalissimo: "The way is one and the winds blow together...
...news of other learned societies, see SCIENCE. †The famed West Virginia-Kentucky feud, which began with either1) an elopement or 2) a stolen pig shortly after the Civil War, reached a climax battle 20 years ago (47 killed, 100 wounded). *At the bottom of the scroll, the President hedged: "Valid if said Watson is a full-blooded Seminole Indian. I think he is." *Not to be confused with the Dalai Lama, temporal ruler of Tibet. The Panchen Lama is Tibet's spiritual ruler...
...field in Burma the weather looked dirty, so the pilot who had won in a lottery (TIME, March 13) the right to take her over the Hump decided to wait; that night another plane crashed in the Himalayas. Tabbed "Madame Cheesecake" by the G.I.s, she was given a scroll by vinegary Lieut. General Joe Stilwell which identified her as a Dead End Kid (because she went to the end of the line). In Burma and China, Pioneer Paulette rode many an extra jeep mile to get to plumbing, often brushed her teeth with canned grapefruit juice, washed her underwear...
Eddie Cantor, who has been rolling his banjo eyes (see p. 54) at wounded servicemen on the "Purple Heart Circuit" for three months, was awarded a Purple Heart scroll at a testimonial dinner marking his 35th anniversary in show business...
...Abbey Theatre has never stultified itself with a starring system; if it had, Fitzgerald and Sara Allgood would undoubtedly have been headliners. When the Players toured the U.S. in 1934, a passel of critics and actors gave Fitzgerald a scroll calling him "the most versatile character comedian in the world today." A lot of reputable people still refer to him, automatically, as the finest living actor...