Word: shan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unpaid A.R.P. warden, Monty Finch plunged into the flooded cellar of a bombed house, swam and waded nose-deep through rafts of debris, past crumbling walls to haul an old man, an old woman, several other bombees out to safety. Next day he confided to another warden, "I shan't be alive much longer. One of these air raids will get me." Three days later the air raids got him with a direct hit, right in front of his post...
...real backbone of the Labor Party is the anonymous heroine who says to her neighbor: "Can't come to the pictures-I'm going to a meeting," or the hero who tells "his pals in the pub": "Shan't be seeing you for a week or so-we've got a membership drive...
Gene Krupa is a serious student of timpanology, an admirer of such virtuosi as Vishnudass Shirali, who has pounded and patted twelve drums for Hindu Dancer Uday Shan-Kar. Also Gene Krupa is, today, where popular musicians like to be when they settle down: in the money. He has his own band which, however conventional its brand of swing, brings in the jitterbugs. "I like to see them go crazy," says Gene Krupa. "I sure...
Died. Dr. Chang Shan-tse, 62, China's famed tiger painter (TIME, July 24, 1939); of heart disease; in Chungking. Born of a Catholic Chinese mother, Artist Chang was converted to Catholicism in 1937, received his Church's last rites from his friend Bishop Paul Yu-pin, highest Catholic cleric in China...
Christian crosses spring from Buddhist lotus-flower bases at Dr. Karl Ludwig Reichelt's red-roofed Tao Fong Shan mission high above lovely Shatin Valley near Hong Kong. That fusion of symbols suits the earnest, persuasive Norwegian missionary. His object is to teach Buddhist monks Christianity in a familiar setting, make them converts to take Christianity to millions of other Buddhists. The Nazi Blitzkrieg last spring cut off funds from Norway and Denmark which have long financed Missionary Reichelt. But his work will go on. U. S. Lutherans have rallied to his support, as they have to 37 other...