Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondents assigned to the East Bengal tour of Mohandas K. Gandhi have been holed up for the past fortnight in the remote Moslem village of Shrirampore. To get to the nearest telegraph office, they had to walk 30 miles. Even after this extraordinary effort, most of their dispatches missed the point: while deadlock and deterioration attended Hindu-Moslem relations at the London Conference, at New Delhi and elsewhere, Gandhi had turned his back on politics, was seeking a solution on another plane. A few weeks ago he was quietly advising on every move of the Congress Party...
...tropical forest surrounded by ponds, coconut and betel palm groves and paddy fields. He dismissed his retinue of ipo people except for a stenographer and a teacher, who thought Gandhi at 77 not too old to learn Bengali. Often at Shrirampore Gandhi sang Rabindranath Tagore's Ekla Chalo (Walk Alone). Out one day for his afternoon walk, Gandhi tried to cross a bamboo-stick bridge, slipped and was saved from a splash by his teacher. Murmured Gandhi (who rarely misses a chance at homely symbolism): "Crossing bamboo bridges requires great skill. ... I shall try to acquire it by practicing...
...Miss Jenny's and the gaily colorful hobo-jungle especially adding to the beauty of the performance. The Duke Ellington music (book and lyrics are by John Latouche) is almost as rewarding with a score of pleasing melodies. Among the better tunes are "Take Love Easy," "When I Walk With You," "Tomorrow Mountain," "Tooth and Claw," and "Girls Want A Hero." Latouche's lyrics are particularly amusing in "Ore From A gold Mine" and "I Want To Be Bad." The east gives a performance of mixed quality. Alfred Drake (Oklahoma I's Curly) is in fine voice as Macheath...
...remarkably like people everywhere, would rather improve this sorry picture than carry the Marxist banner to distant lands. Stalin & Co., in spite of their enormous foreign and military commitments, have been trying desperately since the war ended to ease the shortages. They have had some success. A walk around Moscow last week showed Russians better dressed than last year, more toys and cooking utensils in shop windows and, in some sections, lights gleaming in rooms which last year were only hollow shells of construction interrupted by the war or bombed-out wrecks gutted...
SPRAINS. For a sprained ankle, the painful area is anesthetized and the patient walks as soon as he can; exercise tends to speed the cure (patients can walk normally in two weeks or less). Drawback: the daily injections are painful...