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Hindus accused the Minister of Communications, Moslem Leaguer Abdur Rab Nishtar, of carting off to Karachi (temporary capital of Pakistan) every piece of telephone and telegraph equipment he could lay hands on. Calcutta's Hindu press said that Bengal's Prime Minister Huseyn Shabad Suhrawardy, a Moslem, was stripping western Bengal (which will be part of Hindu India) of food, clothing, machinery and hospital equipment...
...easily did he breeze through the first five matches that London's Daily Telegraph headlined, "Kramer Loses a Set," when he dropped one to Australia's Dinny Pails in the semifinals. It was the only one of 22 sets he lost all week. Said the Daily Mail's veteran tennis critic Stanley Doust: "I rate Kramer equal to Donald Budge, and better than Ellsworth Vines or Fred Perry...
TIME'S editorial operation is geared to handle the vagaries of the news, which has no respect for editorial deadlines, and such high-speed devices as the radio, telephone and telegraph are generally equal to this challenge. Some of the critical materials we work with also use older, slower methods of communication. Newspictures, for instance, generally go by plane or train-as does background editorial copy designed to be kept on file until events make it news. Dailey's job, in part, is to dispatch and pick up these slower moving materials with the least loss of time...
...three days across the border the President had conducted no state business, but had done much to foster good-neighborly relations-just what he wanted. In his quiet way, the President had scored a big hit. Said a telegraph clerk: "That smile kind of gets you. He ought to come back often." clanged out The Missouri Waltz, the President, now in frock coat and silk hat, walked across the street to the Parliament Building with Mackenzie King. The House of Commons chamber was full. Bess Truman, in the Speaker's Gallery, smiled down from under a huge white...
...where Father bawled his lines for the first time last week, prospects were not so rosy. London's critics (like Rome's-TIME, March 24) took the old boy for a fall. Hmmed the Daily Graphic: "New York has been convulsed for seven years. . . . Why?" The Daily Telegraph found it "all very pleasant in an elementary way [but] not as good as all that." The News Chronicle was inclined to blame the slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering in mid-Atlantic...