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...irate audience suspected that the same fate was in store for two more, jealously guarded by the property man. The three bananas had been contributed by a drama lover of Great Yarmouth, who had made his three children give up their precious fruit. It was doubtful whether Actress Sylva had any right to eat them. By law, only children under 18 are entitled to bananas in Britain. Miss Sylva is over...
...governor of China's Szechwan Province is a wise Oriental. His province has the world's only supply of much-sought-after giant pandas. His problem: what he could buy that was one-half so precious as the stuff he had to sell. His answer: scholarships. For two pandas, f.o.b., he demanded two one-year scholarships, complete with tuition and living expenses, for deserving Szechwan students...
...precious bones-six skulls, a half-dozen lower jaws, 100 teeth, a few odd fragments of arms & legs-were carefully packed in two unpainted wooden boxes. First the boxes were stored in a secret vault at Peking Union Medical College. Then they were spirited away and delivered to the U.S. Marine barracks for shipment to New York City. That was in the fall of 1941. It was the last seen of Peking Man and fragmentary friends...
...clerks feel like keepers at the zoo with no food for the animals at feeding time." AH over the U.S., underwear, men's suits and shirts and women's stockings were scarcer than ever before. Stores brave enough to advertise a small shipment of any of the precious items warned customers that they shopped at their own risk (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), occasionally had to call police to quell riots...
...wrong about the Gulistan Palace. While sympathizing with the young Shah's difficulties, both public and personal, TIME believes its information on them may be more up-to-date than Mr. Pope's. TIME hopes that Iran will triumphantly survive its current travail, resume its "constructive and precious contributions to world civilization" too long suspended...