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...Were dismayed amid their efforts to get through first reading the longest measure ever submitted to Parliament-the India Bill giving a more liberal status to the Empire's vast subcontinent (TIME, Dec. 3)-by news that at Bombay last week the turbaned and bejeweled Maharajas of India's Chamber of Princes adopted a resolution as follows: "This meeting desires to emphasize that in many respects the bill and the instrument of accession depart from agreements arrived at during the meetings of representatives of the Indian States with members of His Majesty's Government. It regrets...
Last December the tawny, friendly islanders received the longest visit (ten days) from a scientist that any of them could remember. The visitor was Harry Lionel Shapiro, 32-year-old anthropologist of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Shapiro went to Pitcairn not as a nostalgic historian and romancer of the sea but as a student of what he called a ''laboratory experiment"-the development by cross-breeding of a new type of human from precisely traceable origins. In the ''Pitcairn Island Register" he found a record of births and deaths...
...Road. In September 1931, an eight-car special train carried the all-black company and its scenery to Chicago for a 19-week engagement, the longest outside New York. Then The Green Pastures looped about through the Midwest, swung out across the prairies and over the Rockies to Seattle, down the West Coast through San Francisco and Los Angeles, wound up its first touring season in Denver in July 1932 (see map). Next season the tour began in Boston, Mass., hopped from town to town in the Middle Atlantic States and closed in Easton, Pa. Producer Stebbins, worried lest Southern...
...ornate and gleaming New Delhi, the $50,000,000 Viceregal Capital, swarthy politicos of India's Legislative Assembly jabberingly debated last week the Gargantuan British bill-longest ever submitted to the House of Commons-which is to give India a new Status (TIME...
Goalies who have been seriously injured once are usually too wary of the puck to be of much use thereafter. Chabot proved an exception. Traded to Toronto, he helped that team win the Stanley Cup in 1932, the following year guarded its net throughout the longest hockey game on record (2 hr., 44 min.) which the Maple Leafs won, 1-to-0. Last year he played for the Montreal Canadiens. Before this season started he and three hockey-player friends went on a fishing trip. In a village saloon, one of them picked up a paper which contained the news...