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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this 45-year-old child of luck and revolution. He is tall for an Indonesian (5 ft. 8 in.) and, by native standards, superlatively handsome. His Malay is self-consciously choice; in fact, he is so insistent on advancing the native speech that he is called Indonesia's Webster (meaning Noah, not Daniel). He is quite an orator, too-TIME'S Sherrod cabled the following picture of Soekarno addressing an audience of 5,,000 women...
...byline was to make him several millions as a war correspondent, fictioneer, movie producer, columnist, all-round reporter and tamperer with the language. His Broadwayese delighted Britons as well as Americans; and grammarians were alarmed by the numbers who preferred Runyon's English to the King's. Webster never told them that a G was $1,000, a wrong gee a no-good guy, a glaum a good look...
Constantly in touch by radio, the underground of Tel Aviv dot-dashed the plan to the ship. The refugee radio operator, who could not speak English, painfully deciphered the messages in his Webster. The plan: a fleet of small boats would go out to meet the ship and would then put ashore refugees over a wide area of the coast in an "assault landing." Underground terrorists, who had ceased their attacks throughout Palestine for nearly a week, were ready to hold off police during the landing...
...Christmas mails may be late this year, but two alumni, Perey Jenkins '24 and Edwin Sibley Webster, Jr. '23 will set something of a record in the hear future, when they receive postcards addressed to them 23 years ago. Two residents of Grays Hall found the cards yesterday, stuck in the wall behind a studding. The missives, one announcing an invitation meeting of the Signet Society, had seemingly fallen through a crack in the mail box, when originally deposited there on March 2 and October 3, 1923. Benevolent undergraduates will forward the cards to the rightful owners...
...production was frequently sharp theater, but was thrown badly off center by Actor Jory's failure to make Borkman either the dominating or the large-dimensioned figure he should be. His Borkman was much too hollowly histrionic, too ostentatiously "tragic." It was Eva Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster, as the two sisters, who did most to pace the play...