Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...door to settlement open a chink by agreeing to contest the coming elections and negotiate with the British Government. On the prickly problem of Pakistan (a separate Moslem State) the Working Committee had already hedged: Congress would oppose partition, but, if unsuccessful, it would not compel seceding Moslems to stay inside a Hindu India. From the Moslem League and its canny, cagey president, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, came no comment. He was too busy preparing his campaign in the northwest, heart of the hypothetical Moslem State...
Died. William Buehler Seabrook, 59, explorer-author who raised readers' hair and eyebrows with his adventures among Haitian voodoo worshipers and African cannibals (The Magic Island, Jungle Ways), once detailed his stay in a mental hospital where he went to be cured of alcoholism (Asylum); by his own hand (overdose of sleeping pills-see MEDICINE); in Rhinebeck...
Young Dr. Graham does not expect to be kept too busy at the White House-the President's health being what it is. Besides giving his No. 1 patient a daily once-over, the Colonel hopes to continue surgery at Walter Reed (so long as he stays in the Army) and teach in his spare time. Said he: "I asked Dad if this was a political appointment, because I like to stay away from that sort of thing, and Dad said:'No, it certainly...
Government to subsidize ballet. Says she: "A bunch of foreigners have brought the ballet into the country - now I would like that it could stay and be an American institution." Monte Carlo's Queen. In the severe Russian tradition, Danilova started training at eight, when her aunt put her in the Imperial Theater School in St. Petersburg. Through nine cold and hungry years Danilova struggled to make the corps of Moscow's famed Maryinsky Theater, the tough and thorough proving ground for Imperial School pupils. In her second year at Maryinsky, Alexandra danced the lead in Stravinsky...
...headmaster of the Hun School (boy's preparatory) and of Princeton's best-known tutoring school; of a stomach hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A famed teacher of dullards, an inveterate poker player, a kindly wit, Dr. Hun helped many a husky lad get into Princeton University and stay there...