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...Singh, president of the India League of America, got through Congress an amendment which will permit famine-stricken India (pop. 389,000,000) to share in the largesse of the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration. He had finally put through something that India's timid official delegate had not even dared to bring up at UNRRA's Atlantic City assemblage...
Every two months subway riders saw other prints (13 in all). Soon the line of purchasers at the Museum turned from a timid trickle into a demand. By last week the Metropolitan had sold 60,000 ("Wonderful and amazing," says Ideaman Jayne) of its gay reproductions ("Bright color sells," he adds), including prints by Winslow Homer (Natural Bridge), Claude Monet (Sunflowers), Edgar Degas (Woman with Chrysanthemums). All prints are without lettering, suitable for framing. Best-seller was the Lawrence lush, sentimental Calmady Children (now out of print). Only modern represented...
...Sympathy . . . not pity but fellow-suffering. . . . The churches must lose their lives for Christ's sake and that of the brethren, become the hidden leaven of a selfless love in the lump of misery called mankind, go out and share the bitter things with not one timid shudder, or else be trodden under foot by men who have learned what life is all about...
Mabel Fairbanks is no carbon copy of Sonja Henie or Maribel Vinson. But experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance...
...large bedroom of St. Louis' Coronado Hotel, a thin-haired little man who looks like a timid clerk last week shot com mands at eight tired businessmen. "Little Bill" Miller, probably the country's foremost relaxation expert, was holding class-at $100 a head for six one-hour lessons...