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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight years, New Zealand authorities patiently waited before bringing Horry to trial. Then under the common law principle that anyone who has been declared a missing person may, after seven years, be presumed dead, they seized Horry. Last week, without a trace of a body or part of a body or direct evidence that death had taken place or a confession by the accused, the court convicted Horry of his wife's murder. The sentence: life imprisonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Lost on a Honeymoon | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...August, first month of the Caribbean's high-wind season, hurricanes usually trace out tracks north of Jamaica, but last week's hurricane was a little south for August. It roared straight toward Kingston. Warned by a storm tide and a hot, moist atmosphere, Kingston (pop. 250,000) battened down; buses stopped running, movies closed, people stayed home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMAICA: Hurricane | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...method has been tried only in the laboratory. Among their test shots, the inventors have two pictures of a glowing filament covered by a dense filter that made it invisible to the naked eye. One picture, taken directly on a photographic plate, showed only a dim trace of the filament after a six-hour exposure. The other, taken with speeded-up electrons, showed the whole filament clearly after only four minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electron Astronomy | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...wonderful kid," said Claire Young's father last week. With just a trace of his native brogue, Professor James Young of Chicago's Loyola University told how he used to take his only child to summer concerts in Grant Park. "She used to be happiest when she was listening to classical records and singing with them," he said. "She had girl friends, but wouldn't go out with boys. We would encourage her to go to dances, but she never wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Priest & The Girl | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Songstress Shoshana (Hebrew for Rose) has a deceptive way with her. She announces her songs demurely in broken English. Then, above a tinkling piano accompaniment, her voice rises plaintively while her hands trace delicate arabesques. As she sings an ancient Sephardic spiritual or a song of Yemen's lonely shepherds, her voice rises in volume and takes on a coarser quality, and the melodies take eerie slides and leaps. By the time she reaches the song's climax, her head tossed back, her voice a full-throated wail, the nightclub is pulsating with a savage beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Israeli Folk Singer | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

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