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...feel rather guilty in this matter," mumbled aging Lord Brabazon of Tara, "because, like many other Lords, I do not turn up as much as I should, but I will be quite frank in saying that the reason why I do not turn up as much as I should is that the speeches in Your Lordships' House have become interminably long. I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes, you ought to go away and write a book about it. It would seem to me that...
...Tara Singh, white-bearded religious leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs, has strong views about the recent habit among young Sikhs of shaving their chins. "These spoiled youths forget," he said, "that when they are shaven they look like boiled potatoes." And then, because Tara Singh is also an active politician, he went on: "Shave the lion and see how he looks! Are we not a race of lions...
...British India, when some Sikh country was shaved off to make part of what is now West Pakistan. Forced to move out, the Sikhs left a trail of massacre behind them, and were furious when Nehru ordered their swords to be sewn into their leather scabbards. Said old Tara Singh: "When the Moslems can get Pakistan, and the Hindus India, why not a Sikhs' Sikhistan?" But Nehru's Congress Party won over many of Tara Singh's followers to the idea of peace, and of a multiracial India. In the 1951 general elections, Tara Singh...
...time came when Nehru, reluctantly yielding to pressure from India's many language groups, appointed a State Reorganization Committee to advise "on the realigning of states within India. By skillful gerrymandering, Tara Singh worked out a scheme for a Punjabi-speaking state of 35,458 square miles, containing a population of 12 million, with the Sikhs in a slight minority. "We multiply faster than Hindus and are more virile," said Tara Singh. "In ten years we will be in an absolute majority, leaving the soft-fleshed Hindus to trail behind." Two months ago Tara Singh's party, regaining...
...Judy, she has never sung better. Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin have given her six good songs-among them one unforgettable lump in the throat, The Man That Got Away. Her big, dark voice sobs sighs, sulks and socks them out like a cross between Tara's harp and the late Bessie Smith...