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...Manhattan, the Rev. Bernard R. ("The Glacier Priest") Hubbard disclosed that the U.S. Air Force recently took a "fix" of the North Pole with loran (longrange navigation) beams aimed from Alaska to intersect at the 90th meridian. Father Hubbard, who is serving as an Arctic consultant to Colonel Bernt Balchen's 10th Rescue Squadron, said that U.S. Air Force planes had circled the North Pole 300 times, taking photographs of the spot marked by the crossing electronic beams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Poles Apart | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Time for Comedy. But the tight fix of Rank, who turns out 50% of all British films, is no joke to Britons. In the last twelve months, he has fired nearly 1,800 production workers (about 35% of his staff) and kept step with other British moviemakers by cutting the pay of most of those left by 10 to 20%. The drop in movie production was so sharp that Labor

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Rank's Retreat | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Cronin's is Cronin's and Clarke's Sea Grill is uncrowded. You should know where both are located. If you're a visitor, ask any Harvard student. Almost any Chinese restaurant downtown in Chinatown can fix you up with chopsticks and an authentic menu. The food is good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA, Outing Club Shindigs Ignite Indian Festivities | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

...Most of the advice is safe & sound, and many teen-agers who wouldn't take it from their parents seem to accept it from Chi-Chi. (But one irked teen-age boy wrote: "There's nothing wrong with you that a good hot date wouldn't fix.") She gets from 500 to 1,000 fan letters a month, has to get help from Marguerite to answer them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Solid Side | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

When the morning service was over the women, in their Sunday-best print dresses, bustled off to the new basement to fix a country-style dinner. Meanwhile, Brother Robinson heard the quarterly progress reports on the three churches-Fletcher Chapel, Ebenezer Church and Pimento Church that make up 35-year-old Rev. Eldon O. Gourley's Pimento circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rededication | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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