Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hastings William Sackville Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford, follows the great tradition of the noble British individualist. A tall, cadaverous man of 52, dressed in blue serge and a green "ratcatcher" cap given him by his mother, he broods over the mating habits of spiders, has written a book on Parrots and Parrotlike Birds in Aviculture. Last week he published a new work, an anti-war pamphlet called What a Game! It put him back in the hot water he has stewed in for most of World...
Pope Pius XII sent Apostolic Delegate Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. President Roosevelt sent Vice President Henry Agard Wallace. Heading the gowned procession that marched across Edwards Parade and up the broad stone steps of Gothic Keating Hall was Professor Albert Feuillerat of the University of Paris (founded early 12th Century). Five Catholic bishops in traditional purple robes brought up the rear. Amid the faint rumble of trolley cars that reached the 70-acre campus, Fordham's President Robert Ignatius Gannon faced his distinguished assemblage and exclaimed happily: "John Hughes [Fordham's founder, later New York's first Catholic...
Objective of the upper column, of British-led Arabs from Iraq, was Aleppo, the old Hittite city with a 12th-Century Saracen citadel. There, two weeks ago, Nazis had begun air concentration. Latakia, famed for its dark and pungent tobacco and Syria's northernmost port, was another objective of this British-Arab column. Latakia is vital to the defense of 70-mile offshore Cyprus, which was bombed by Axis planes for 48 relentless hours last week...
...12th, Teddy Powell will be playing at Kirkland House, and if you didn't hear him when he was at the Famous Door, Kirkland gives you the opportunity to dance to one of our better up-and-coming orchestras. Powell, too, has a nice jump style, and features a number of boogie-orchestrations, some of which (Teddy's Boogie-Woogie and Teddy Bear Boogie) you can hear on Decca records. He's got a gang of good soloists, and gives them ample opportunity...
...some unseen transformer had hooked on a new supply of power, Armstrong was the dynamo of days gone by. His little fists smashed Zivic with savage fury. It was a superhuman rally, one its witnesses will never forget. But it was too late. After 52 seconds of the 12th round, Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the fight. Three times (after the eighth, ninth and tenth rounds) he had peered anxiously at Armstrong's wounds. His eleventh-round warning-"Just one more round, Henry"-had spurred the chocolate soldier to his last stand...