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...dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind a men's room mirror. It was a TNT bomb, and the passenger suspected of planting it was executed two weeks...
...wasn't she? After a quick look at photographs of Princess Margaret and Husband Tony taken during her 32nd birthday party in Abbeyleix, Ireland last week. London's Daily Mirror assumed that she was, bannered: ANOTHER BABY FOR MARGARET. The princess' press officer, besieged by queries, refused to confirm or deny the story. "I simply don't know," he muttered. "To ask the princess herself would be impertinent...
...French via the methods used to teach deaf children to speak was the new wrinkle this summer at private Grosse Pointe (Mich.) University School. Example: student and teacher sit before a mirror to master the lip movements of French pronunciation. In one week, four-year-olds learned five numbers, 25 words, a dozen phrases. Five-and six-year-olds learned twice as much. The Grosse Pointe public school system will now try the method in fourth to sixth grades...
...were obviously irritated by the imperfections of the Cinerama process: the fuzzy vertical lines between the three panels of the picture; the jiggling of the panels and their variations of color and brightness; a degree of distortion that often makes the picture look like something seen in a laff mirror. For another thing, the Stanley Warner Cinerama Corp...
Naked Horseman. By 1841, when James Gordon Bennett Jr. was born, his father was on his way to becoming rich. The boy was raised like an Asiatic prince, and the training took firm hold; he lived like one for the rest of his life. Onetime Newspaperman (New York Mirror) Richard O'Connor tells his story well in this appropriately slapdash biography...