Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very interested to read your Aug. 24 article on the Magnet and illustrations from it. I used to follow the adventures of Billy Bunter, as well as all the others you mention, for many years before I came to Canada in 1925 . . . but during the war I lost touch with such mundane matters. Although I am older than the oldest number of the Magnet, your story has brought back a desire to see for myself just what Bunter & Co. are doing...
...told his story: how he and a small group of officers and G.I.s fought their way out of burning Taejon in that first grim month of the war; how he became separated from his party when he went to the help of a wounded man; how he lost touch with his aide; how he fell down a cliff while looking for water. For 35 days he wandered, dazed and hungry, begging food at farmhouses. Finally he was betrayed by a South Korean who led him into ambush...
...quick to capitalize on the trouble to press its own campaign against federation. Its leader is 43-year-old Hastings Banda, who left Nyasaland 21 years ago, got a U.S. education (University of Chicago), makes his home in London's Buckingham Palace Road but keeps in close touch with Ny-asaland's native politicians. Most of the chieftains back Banda's Congress (those who don't are being deposed, like the headman at Chitera) and listen to his admonitions to resist but not to kill...
...With the Boa. By now, Townsend, with headquarters in a group of 35 buildings on Lake Yarinacocha, six miles north of Pucallpa, has a staff of 108 (with 30 children, many of them born at Yarina-ocha). Townsend's teams cover the jungle in six airplanes, keep in touch with headquarters by radio...
...visit to Calcutta, Mahatma Gandhi once sent word to Jamini Roy to bring some paintings around for a private showing. The artist politely refused. "As a man," said Roy, "I will gladly go and touch his feet with my hands. As an artist, never. It is his duty to come and visit...