Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broad-Gauge Brass...
...Your article on Admiral Sherman [TIME, March 13] was a typically fine TIME journalistic achievement and an excellent coverage of a most deserving subject. However . . . I take exception to your remark that West Point [seems to] produce more "broad-gauge" minds than does the Naval Academy...
...Along the broad King's Walk, behind whose fashionable modern apartment buildings lurk some of its best-advertised houses of prostitution, Chinese merchants set up hobbyhorse displays and giant paintings of the King. Incense candles were made ready to be lighted and to waft pleasant smells (very important in Siam) when the King arrived. A youngster got tired of waiting, climbed up into a tree and went to sleep. Passers-by tickled the soles of his feet. He went on sleeping. Police wormed their way through the crowd notifying property owners that a police order issued the day before...
Hughes, in defending his book, reitreated his thesis that the cultural vitally of our civilization is gone, and that some form of corporatism or universal rate must follow. Though admitting the selectivity of his historical material, Hughes defended the validity of broad historical thinking, a position which Aiken severely questioned...
...truth it did seem in busy Bangkok last week that the returning King's welcome would be more than adequate without elephants. All over the sunburnt city Siamese soldiers, sailors, royal princes and plain workmen rushed last-minute preparations. Along the broad, apartment-lined King's Walk, 5,000 soldiers marched and countermarched in rehearsal, while their fellows joined hands to hold back imaginary crowds pressing forward from the sidewalks. On the parade grounds near by, carpenters worked hard to complete the wooden tower that would serve late this month as a funeral pyre for the late King...