Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General P. T. Mow and his chief aide, Colonel V. S. Hsiang. Their superiors in Formosa had asked them to account for $19 million entrusted to them for military procurement. Publicly refusing to do so, they declared that they were being persecuted by Nationalist thugs and thieves. Somehow, their version of the dispute, vague but voluble, made frontpage news...
...King James version: Simon the Sorcerer...
...agonized discussion about whether Pamela had, in effect, killed the parakeet herself or whether the dog alone was to blame. These juvenile soul-searchings have proved so attractive to listeners that, last week, the Illinois Meat Co. added new territory to the family by putting a transcribed 15-minute version of the Johnson chitchat over stations WCBS in New York, WTAM in Cleveland, and WXYZ in Detroit...
...days passed, events took a turn for the better. Townsfolk began rummaging through their own attics and libraries, and six found that they owned copies of Ten Nights. The Wilkes-Barre Little Theatre Group, which had performed a play version of the book in 1933, discovered that it still had three copies lying around. Other copies came from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana. Though some owners wanted as much as $1,000 for their copies, there were plenty of others willing to hand theirs over free. Finally, last week, Miss Bender was able to announce that she had collected...
...after finishing Jet Pilot (still unreleased) for RKO, Duke decided to take Chata and himself on his first vacation in more than ten years. A trip through Central America in a reconditioned Navy PBY provided by Howard Hughes, the vacation turned out to be just a road-company version of life in Hollywood. A never-ending stream of autograph hunters and command appearances faced the famed movie star at every stop. The air waves hummed with unfinished business. John Ford, impatient to get going on Duke's new film in Ireland, peppered the wanderers with importunate messages. Tempers were...