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...cinema stunt, Actress Wong and 446 fellow passengers were en route to the U. S. For three weeks, they had been stranded in Honolulu by the shipping strike (TIME, Nov. 23). A few tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles out to the Matson liner Monterey, whose captain had refused to enter the harbor for fear of losing his crew. They left Hawaii in a state of what its Governor Joseph...
...situation in regard to the appointment of a new Dean is exactly the same as it was last spring. Morgan is now serving as Acting Dean under an interim appointment, but he does not believe that a new Dean will be chosen until next year. He said that the situation will be thoroughly canvassed during that time by the Corporation, who will make the appointment...
...widower, old Gunnar of Vadin had lost his faith in the old pagan gods without accepting the new Christian doctrine that Olav was spreading. In the interim, he "put all his faith in his own strength," lived to learn that his strength was not great enough. When young Ljot of Iceland arrived at Vadin on a timber-buying expedition, old Gunnar made him welcome, was not adamant when 20-year-old Ljot soon wanted to marry his only daughter. Ljot was a fatherless, headstrong, impulsive Viking. At 13 he had killed his father's murderer, become widely known both...
...what it considered another forward step, the Stock Exchange last month suggested that listed companies issue interim earnings reports on a twelve-month basis instead of in the usual quarterly or half-year form. In the past this form of report has been widely used by utilities but rarely by industrials. Two conspicuous exceptions have been Continental Can and Owens Illinois Glass, both of which publish earnings every three months covering operations for the preceding twelve months. Chief advantage is that it automatically irons out any seasonal factors in a company's business, each report taking in a full...
Premier Okada, who by a miracle also escaped assassination by soldiers, continued to hold office ad interim last week while search was conducted for a new Premier & Cabinet. In Japan this is anything but a straightforward process. A subject is commissioned by the Son of Heaven to form a Cabinet, but he cannot do so and become Premier unless he successfully supplicates an Army officer to deign to act as War Minister and a Navy officer to deign to become Naval Minister in his Cabinet...