Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occupied Zone. In Sydney, Australia, William C. R. Turner was granted a divorce after he charged that his wife's lover 1) lived at the Turner home for 18 months, entering and leaving by Mrs. Turner's bedroom window, 2) beat him up, and 3) regularly chased him into the street...
Citation: "Editor, learned lawyer, able executive, experienced statesman, public-spirited citizen, governor of the state of Illinois, great-grandson of the ninth president of Hampden-Sydney College...
...Hampden-Sydney College (Virginia...
Kangaroo (20th Century-Fox), the product of a 9,200-mile location trek, is the first Hollywood movie to be made in Australia. The trip paid off with striking Technicolor scenes that Director Lewis Milestone shot around Sydney and rugged Flinders Range: a cattle stampede in a bushfire, a corroboree rain dance, a blistering dust storm and a slashing bullwhip battle between a couple of bushrangers...
Blunden, a TIME foreign-news writer who spent 14 months in Russia for the London Evening Standard and the Sydney Daily Telegraph, and entered Kharkov immediately after it was liberated by the Red Army, knows his facts and his scene. Five years ago he published A Room on the Route (TIME, March 3, 1947), one of the best fictional portraits of Stalinist terror ever written. By comparison, The Time of the Assassins is diffuse, but it is still a gripping novel in its own right...