Filmed in 1939, the movie was inspired by the Rudyard Kipling poem about a lowly native water boy for the British Army in colonial India who saves the regiment from a massacre by the Thugee, a fanatic ...
A prep (junior) school in Oxford, known improbably as the Dragon, had since the 1920s named one of its boarding houses Gunga Din after the character in Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem. Last month the ...
Genre aficionados are fond of finding literary antecedents in unlikely places, and science fiction devotees' latest rediscovery is the Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Hugo and Nebula ...
The competition for the Lee Wade and Boylston prizes was held last night in Sanders Theatre before a large audience. The Wade prize of $50 was awarded by the unanimous decision of the judges to Oviatt ...
Thomas Pinney, a professor of English at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., uncovered the works in an archive at the house of the former head of the Cunard cruise line — Sir Percy Bates, one of ...
SCHWEINFURT, Germany — Forty-one Quarterhorse Cavalry officers took part in a test of strength, endurance and combat-critical skills during the Gunga Din II skills challenge Thursday. But the most ...