Word: bazaar
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...damchee, na, na, damchee! " wailed the tongawalla to a British officer, who was trying to rent his two-wheeled tonga at an air base in India. Then a U.S. sergeant stepped from the bazaar with the souvenirs he had bought, said: "Sorry, sir, but this is mine for the afternoon...
...newsstands. FORTUNE had already announced a reduction in its page size effective with its March issue. TIME and LIFE, before the limitation was established, had of their own accord already established limits on the amount of advertising they would accept, and other magazines may now follow. Harper's Bazaar announced the elimination of its March 15 issue (it had been published 13 times a year, will drop to twelve...
Against Gypsy Rose (The G-String Murders) Lee a suit for $5,000 and half the G-Siring royalties was filed by Harper's Bazaar Associate Editor Dorothy Wheelock, who charged she collaborated with the ecdysiast on "a literary work with a burlesque-theater background," found a publisher for it, and was then ditched. Gypsy says the editor wrote "a sample book," but not G-String...
Race. No European was killed, but there were ominous undertones of racial antagonism. From a rooftop in Old Delhi a TIME correspondent watched a riot area a mile and a half long in Chandni Chauk, heart of the bazaar district. Exploding tear-gas bombs sent the demonstrators into alleyways, wiping their eyes. Then banners peeked around corners again, lines re-formed and marched forward. The sound of rifle fire or sudden panic would send the demonstrators racing away. When police charged or fired into the crowds, angry roars burst with the hysterical fervor of a high-school cheering section...
Moslem tribesmen resented Amanullah's attempts to make them wear bazaar-bought pants, and they refused to tear the veils from their wives. But they learned from him how to play one great nation against another. So far in World War II they have been playing the Axis against the Allies. If Envoy Engert, over tea and mulberries, can persuade Afghan leaders that the hour for such two-way policies is running out, he can march back from Kabul a diplomatic hero...