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...trans-Pacific flight once more. In Hawaii, before winging on to his new home, Lee was welcomed with a jar of kimchi (Korean pickled cabbage), which he ate, and a pair of cowboy six-shooters, which he quickly buckled on. Lee responded with one of his few English words: "Wow...
Billy Bunter is always in trouble: he is "whopped" ("Wow! Oh! Oh. crumbs! Wow!"), smacked ("Yarooh! Ow! Wow! Ooogh! Beast! Wow!"), and "spiflicated" unmercifully ("Ow! I say-wow! I say-oh. crikey!"). But in spite of such misadventures, Billy Bunter has managed to survive-at the same age and in the same school-for 45 years. Last week Britons were once again reading all about him in a new book called Billy Bunter's Brain-Wave, by Charles Hamilton...
Asked what she thought about Harvard boys, Miss Courtney replied: "Wow, I've always wanted to meet a Harvard man, and now that I finally have a date, I'll have to go out with a thousand at once...
This display of armed might was Britain's answer to the Mau Mau (rhymes with bow-wow), the African secret society that threatens to wipe out Kenya's 30,000 whites (TIME, Oct. 27). Part land hunger, part savage revolution against the domineering white man and the bewildering 20th century, the Mau Mau's blind fury could, if left unchecked, turn the Crown Colony of Kenya into another Malaya. Once pooh-poohed as mere "press exaggeration," the Mau Mau have already mutilated scores of whites and "loyal" blacks, with their favorite weapon, the panga-a long, machete...
...accessory is a tribute to the woman's mind, the triumph of the little thing. Were it not for the sprinkle of papered flowers stuffed majestically in a deccoletage, the pin which adorns a form fitting sweater, who would notice that which is woman? Who would say, "Wow...