Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Birthday. TIME; its 20th; on March 3; in Manhattan;* celebrated by 252 editors, writers, researchers and correspondents working on its 1,042nd issue...
Through three volumes totaling 2,230 pages Lanny has played Master of Ceremonies for a mammoth floorshow version of 20th-century history, and in the fourth he is still one of the most adroit and likable quick-change artists in the profession. He can beard Basil Zaharoff with tips from The Beyond, josh Hermann Goring, rip off a bit of Beethoven for "Adi" Schicklgruber, rescue a beautiful Social Democrat from "Naziland" and an intrepid young Briton from the Spanish Fascists. He can carom all over "this old continent" (Europe) in his high-powered roadster, keeping dates with the major crises...
...MARCH OF TIME-20th Century-Fox) is a day that will be seen and remembered long after this war. The picture is a record of a single day along the entire vast Russian front. The film is one of the finest documentary pictures ever made...
...Order of the Golden Dawn and played four-handed chess with Head Cabalist MacGregor Mathers, Mrs. Mathers and a ghost. It was sheer flapdoodle, but the images gave new energy to his verse. And in time this led to A Vision, one of the most astonishing books of the 20th Century, a sort of Irish-Chaldean Mein Kampf of the undermind...
...fighting in the air for nearly three years, has flown in battle across the Channel more than 100 times. Thrown out of the U.S. Air Corps when his age was discovered, he enlisted with the R.A.F. a year and four months before Pearl Harbor, left for England on his 20th birthday. He led the R.A.F.'s First Eagle Squadron for nearly a year, won the Distinguished Flying Cross, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallantry at Dieppe, where he was shot down and rescued. The others...