Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who were forced to live the lives of Stone Age man and woman in the Australian bush. One was John Graham, a feckless County Cork boy, who was transported for seven years for stealing six pounds of hemp. Assigned as convict-servant to a brutal farmer near Sydney, Graham grew sick and sore at a system by which a man might get as many as 1,600 lashes of a cat-o-nine-tails in a three-year period. He absconded into the bush, preferring (he thought) life among savages to being the prisoner of a civilized state...
...made atomic explosions can help scientists explore the center of the earth, 4,000 miles down. This is the hope of Professor K. E. (for Keith Edward) Bullen of Australia's University of Sydney, who told a Toronto meeting of geophysicists last week that he has already used waves from A-and H-bomb explosions to refine his theories about the earth's deep metallic core...
Topping their stage romance with a real-life courtship, Comedienne Judy Holliday and Leading Man Sydney Chaplin, stars of Broadway's Bells Are Ringing, last week took off for Europe to tell the good news to Sydney's famed father, Cinemime Charles Chaplin...
...Forest Hills last year, not even Sydney's perception could help Althea over a bad case of the West Side shakes. Says he: "She got outgeneraled and outfought by Shirley Fry. Forest Hills meant everything to her. She wanted it so much it awed her till it was like living in a pressure cabin. When the day came, she was a nervous wreck, and Fry beat her like a mother beats a child...
Stewed Crow. Interwoven with this main theme is one more private to White: the girl who was left behind wins the lost cause. Laura Trevelyan is a spinster, a philosopher among the Sydney Philistines. She loves Voss enough to know the real nature of his quest and that she is, in spirit, "the sole survivor" of his doomed expedition. Amid the crudity of a still colonial society, the quality of a Laura Trevelyan will prevail, White seems...