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  2. On Top of the World

    OF RECENT YEARS, THE PLEASURES OF TRAVEL TO THE LITTLE-KNOWN INACCESSIBLE PARTS of the world have become more and more difficult to attain. Outside them lurks a dense jungle of visas and passports and permits and all the paper paraphernalia of bureaucracy. As often as not their gates are shrouded with curtains, iron curtains,.bamboo curtains, or currency curtains. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,371 words
  3. BOOKS OF THE DAY

    NO SANE NATION WILL GO TO WAR, BECAUSE WAR IS ASCERTAIN A disaster to victor as to vanquished. This was the argument of the most discussed book of the decade which spanned World War I, Norman Angell's "The Greats Illusion." In "After All" (Hamish Hamilton) the same author records a lifetime in which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,039 words
  4. A Chinese Ambassador's Fine Autobiography

    DR. F. T. CHENG, WHO BEGAN LIFE AS THE CHILD OF AN ORDINARY CHINESE family of the humbler sort and ended it (although, in point of time it is not yet ended!) as an outstanding scholar--can rightly be regarded as a man who made, a success story out of life. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 940 words
  5. In Reminiscent Vein

    THE PASSING OF ANY GREAT AND FAMILIAR FIGURE IS APT TO plunge the mind into reminiscence. The lamented death of King George VI means that those of us who can still remember the end of the Victorian age have lived under six monarchs: there must be few of that company who have ...

    Article : 1,184 words
  6. EDUCATION of AUTHORS

    IT IS THE OPINION OF MANY SUCCESSFUL WRITERS THAT THE EDUCATION of an author, unlike that of a doctor, a lawyer or a civil servant, should not follow a rigidly set course. Literary, education in its broadest sense should be a fine balance of the academic and the practical. By J.T.McP ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 956 words
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