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...over Nepal as its hereditary Prime Ministers. While the King stayed at home in his palace reading Shelley, the Ranas ran his country with an iron hand, indulging their taste for bizarre ornamentation by filling their 30-odd marble palaces with fancy clocks and comical distorting mirrors imported from Coney Island. In 1950, fired by neighboring India, a revolution at last unseated the despotic Ranas, and Tribhubana was set up as a true king, but the "democratic rule" he promptly proclaimed turned out to be only that of a pack of corrupt politicians. Last month, lying ill in Nice...
Road to Jericho. In Coney Island, N.Y., Milkman Charles J. Busch, 50, saw a figure lying near the curb at 5 a.m., stopped, was set upon by the "injured" man and a confederate, beaten and robbed...
...site of a permanent World's Fair. City planners are hopeful that the city may grow out that way. Besides, come summer, they hope business will be better: along the subway's lonely route is the railroad station where trains leave for Ostia, Rome's seaside Coney Island...
...Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf-both occasions when too much of the Japanese fleet got away. In all naval war there has been no bolder or more dramatic decision than Mitscher's, in the Philippine Sea, to violate the hallowed blackout rule and light up the fleet like Coney Island to help homing flyers find their carriers. Characteristically, he took this crushing responsibility with only four words uttered in an almost inaudible voice: "Turn on the lights." Two years later, on Feb. 5, 1947, his heart weakened by years of overwork, Mitscher "slipped his chain." He slipped, also, into...
...staff cameraman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee has been busier lately than an old-fashioned wet-plate photographer at Coney Island. He has snapped pictures of no fewer than 106 G.O.P. congressional candidates with a beaming Dwight Eisenhower, and there is still a waiting list of anxious politicians. Last week, at his regular press conference, Ike was asked what qualifications a Congressman needed to get into a presidential picture. His answer was a brief essay on party loyalty and Ike's own plans for the coming campaign. It was also a warning to Republican irregulars...