Word: 46th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Napoleon lacked two months of being 46 at Waterloo. Wellington had then just passed his 46th birthday...
...most glamorous convention, U.S. industry voiced its deepest hopes and fears last week-just in time, before Japan put an end to talk. The 46th Congress of the National Association of Manufacturers at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was the best attended Congress (over 5,000) in N.A.M. history. It was also the first N.A.M. Congress in almost a decade whose deliberations seemed in step with the times...
Classic definition of the Western Hemisphere was a line drawn by Pope Alexander VI. confirmed in 1494 by the Treaty of Tordesillas. The line ran from the Arctic to the Antarctic on approximately the 46th meridian, 1,475 miles west of Cape Verde. All lands discovered east of this line (including the Azores) went to Portugal; everything west of it was part of the New World which Columbus had just claimed for Spain. Iceland, by this definition, would belong to Europe. So would most of Greenland. So would a large part of Brazil...
Clarinetist Pete Davis ' moves out of Manhattan's 46th Street into a series of low-grade dates in Pennsylvania in the early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about...
...singers like Baritone John Charles Thomas, is I Love Life (so I want to live and drink of life's fullness, take all it can give ...'). This she wrote in 40 minutes, to a lyric by her husband, Bond Broker Irwin Cassel. whom she married after his 46th proposal. They have a son, Marwin (portmanteau for Mana-Irwin) Cassel, 15, whom Mana-Zucca calls "my best composition...