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...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). The Hither and Thither of Danny Dither, a children's morality opera for grownups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Elephant Ride. All around them, saffron-robed Brahman priests bustled hither and thither, frequently consulting notebooks to get the complex ritual straight. An occasional argument in stage whispers broke out and was quickly hushed. After the royal couple mounted the throne-at exactly the auspicious moment of 10:43 a-m-the nead Priest, moving carefully so as not to knock off the young King's glasses, placed upon the monarch's head a peaked helmet adorned with bird-of-paradise feathers* and some $2,000,000 worth of precious gems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Auspicious Moment | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...sieve I'll thither sail...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

Louis Winchester Jones, also of Pasadena, worked briefly in a brokerage firm and a bank, then started teaching English at CalTech, where he is now an associate professor, dean of admissions and registrar. Married, two sons. Jones recalls: "The Rabbit rushed thither and yon like a lost child, but dammit, he got things done . . . We kidded him because we others were a bunch of lazy guys sitting around on our duffs, and Stevenson was doing things . . . He took our kidding damn well, and in college you don't kid unless you like a guy . . . The Engineers have a slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Memories of the Rabbit | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...cake that bore on its icing a verse from the Second Book of Kings: "Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed . . . and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither." The "little chamber" that the 700 built that day for Pastor Kelly and his school turned out to be 19 brand-new, four-room cottages. By nightfall, as the people drove away, lights were already burning in some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Make a Little Chamber... | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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