Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less a Broadway opening than a kind of $5.50 question. On its road tryout Gypsy Rose Lee's maiden effort at playwriting, THE NAKED GENIUS, had become the script-tease of the season. Two days after it went into rehearsal, it was sold to 20th Century-Fox on a sliding-scale basis for a maximum $365,000. In Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, it packed them in-but kept stalling off its Broadway opening. Then Producer Michael Todd (Star & Garter, Something for the Boys) boldly announced he would open the show there over the violent protests of Gypsy and Director George...
...difference was that Napoleon's achievements in both politics and warfare were hailed by most commentators, beginning with himself, while Wellington, who refused to have books written about his battles, was discredited. The incessant stream of Napoleonic propaganda that flowed in a torrent from the 19th into the 20th Century undermined Wellington's military reputation: "There is something disquieting," says Author Aldington, "about the almost fanatical boosting of the arch dictator throughout the period which was at least pretending to apply the principles of democracy...
...continues to this day: protection of Soviet frontiers by the penetration and occupation of border areas. That Russia was able to penetrate and later develop her interest in a region so important, so vast, with so little knowledge of the move reaching the outside world, seems unbelievable in the 20th Century. But it happened...
During treatment and in the following weeks, the men's blood was repeatedly put through seven different syphilis-finding tests. One by one, beginning about the 20th day, the tests became negative. In one case all six tests became negative in 30 days. The others were completely negative by the 110th day except for one man for whom one delicate test remained doubtful (but Dr. Mahoney says "a clever technician" could easily have read that as negative too). Now, 130 days after treatment began, all the men are apparently well. But as syphilis often returns when doctors think they...
Died. Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, 64, charlatan extraordinary to the 20th Century; reportedly after an intestinal operation; in Shanghai. Born a Hungarian Jew, he soon became a Lutheran, left London as a Presbyterian missionary to Canada, reappeared as an Anglican curate in Kent. Then he dropped his clerical garb, called himself Lincoln, in 1910 was elected M.P. with the help of B. Seebohm Rowntree, a credulous cocoa king for whom Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe...