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...popular form of gambling on golf, in which players are auctioned off to the highest bidder, all payments going into a pot that is split be tween "owners" of the winners...
...last month, is the Keren Yeldenu (Our Child's Fund), a citizens' organization. It has removed some 1,400 children from mission auspices during the past two years and placed them in 37 youth clubs and day nurseries. Charges of coercion frequently fly back and forth be tween mission schools and their opponents...
...ordinarily amiable English bulldog who has been carrying TIME clenched be tween my teeth each week to my master, I resent the human reporting in regard to the sterling qualities of my breed in your Feb. 28 issue. "Disobedient," "broods," "lazy," "never plays!"-Poppycock! At my present age of six years I will . . outpull any team of horses-in proportion to my weight. As for not playing, my master says I wear out toys more quickly than any other dog . . . . If by "unsociable" you refer to a certain digestive peculiarity that results in a sort of double-barreled halitosis...
Melancholy but graceful, Lady of Beauty is steeped in the sights and sounds and rituals of Japanese life. As if to signify her own conviction that the old Japan is dead. Author Yamata now shuttles be tween Paris and the shores of Lake Leman with her Swiss painter husband. Yet she recalls the self-exiled Joyce, who could write only of Dublin: while Author Yamata may have left Japan, Japan will never wholly leave her-or anyone who opens her finespun novel...
...mainly because the U.S. Navy had refused approval of the picture. In return for the Navy's cooperation (Says Kramer: "I was practically in command of Pearl Harbor for five weeks"), the moviemakers had to endure some niggling at minor points. In the outcome, even the detailed 'tween-decks griping of Herman Wouk's novel has been effectively realigned into a proper topside salute to all things Navy...