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King of the Khyber Rifles (20th Century-Fox) may be the first CinemaScope production to justify a recent Hollywood wisecrack: "The wider they come the harder they flop." King is a routine Tyrone Power costume adventure set in 1857. Spread out on the enormous CinemaScope screen, it forces the actors to shout love at each other about as intimately as opponents on a tennis court, and the audience gets a neck ache following the conversational ball...
...suggests-that your policy is inspired by principles [as] the fact that there is more "obvious self-interest" about it than the rest of the world can stomach . . . British Socialists and Tories alike regret the American failure to base its policy on a moral purpose which "needs to be wider and last longer than an alliance based upon direct, obvious self-interest in a transitory local situation." Immediately after the war, the Americans were far more determined than we were to destroy Germany; they were ready far more quickly than we were to rearm Germany. After the war, the Americans...
Signs of Decay. A realization that this decision may come sooner than they expect, and that it may be unfavorable, underlay a great colonial debate that welled up among Britons last week. The focus of debate was the British protectorate of Uganda, but the real context was wider. From Cape Town to Suez, the fabric of empire is visibly disintegrating. In the north, the vast Sudan fortnight ago turned its back on Britain (TIME, Dec. 7). In the south, Boer South Africa talks of becoming a republic, and of leaving the Commonwealth. In between (see map), there...
...President Lowell, who was also the director of the Lowell Institute, formed the Commission on Extension Courses, and coordinated the ten forementioned institutions with the Harvard program, offering a wider range of subjects, and both men and women to teach the coeducational courses...
...million in oil to the U.S., and in turn imported more than $500 million in goods from the U.S. Said Jersey Standard: "When we trade our products for those we do not have, or for those which other people can make more advantageously, we benefit by having a wider variety of things to enjoy or by getting them at lower prices...