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...novel, which, like most of her works, coolly takes a continent for its province. But her theme is even wider than her scheme-so wide, in act, that better novelists would find it hard to cover. Intricate and twofold, it ries on the one hand to show the great gap that divides American and Indian understanding and, on the other, how religious zeal and hard experience affect not only this gap, but the Americans and Indians who try to bridge...
Tycoon MacArd's approach to the gap s that of a plain, blunt millionaire. Throw money over from the U.S. side, he argues, and new-type Indian leaders will emerge to invest it. But his idealistic son David thinks otherwise. Money, he believes, is not enough. India may be near to death hysically, but it is vibrant with religious vitality. The would-be missionary cannot convert Indians from behind a desk in Wall Street. He must live in their land and carry his faith to them. To his father's horror, David does just that...
...founder of the weekly Kiplinger Washington Letter, Willard Monroe Kiplinger, 62, has built up a $4,400,000-a-year business by "filling gaps" in news reporting. Besides the Washington Letter, "Circulated Privately to Businessmen" (at $18 a year). Kiplinger and his staff turn out a fortnightly tax letter, a fortnightly farm letter, a monthly magazine Changing Times. Last week Kiplinger began filling a fifth gap. "Kip" had discovered that Europe gravely misunderstands U.S. economics, politics, and motives. His answer: a new newsletter. Overseas Postscript, to "explain U.S. trends to foreign businessmen...
Under ether, the sheriff's chest was opened, and the surgeons clamped off the aorta on both sides of the enlargement. As soon as they removed enough of the mass to give themselves working space, they cut the aorta at each side. Into the gap they stitched a 6-in. piece of aorta taken from another patient, a Negro who had died of injuries a few days earlier. It took 45 minutes from the time the clamps shut off the blood flow to the lower organs for the surgeons to stitch the graft in place and remove the clamps...
Died. Roland Young, 65, veteran London-born cinemactor (Topper, Ruggles of Red Gap), whose clipped moustache, clipped accent and acidly debonair style made him a comic stand-by of the U.S. screen for more than two decades; in Manhattan...