Word: 57th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another violent battle in a continuous, violent war. The impression was exaggerated: the battle of Changteh was violent enough, but it was an interlude in an essentially unviolent war. As in previous foraging expeditions, the Japs had pushed into the Tungting Lake rice bowl of central China. The Chinese 57th Division fought with hand grenades and bayonets until only 300 were left, then escaped from the stricken city...
...raid on Wiener-Neustadt climaxed a week of diversified air attacks over Greater Germany. As the nights grew longer the offensive arc expanded steadily. Early in the week British and Canadian heavy bombers gave the twin Rhineland industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen their 57th aerial pounding of the war. On the same night fast Mosquito bombers struck at the Ruhr and the Fighter Command jabbed at airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries...
...torn pages from the diary of the famed Chicago-born Paris dress designer Mainbocher, whose salon is now located on Manhattan's 57th Street, were published last week in the New York Herald Tribune. Excerpts...
Four months from now he expects to be in Buenos Aires, next month he expects to visit Albuquerque, next week he goes to Indianapolis, this week he was giving a concert in Carnegie Hall and celebrating his 57th birthday in Manhattan. Despite wartime transportation, Polish-born Artur Rubinstein, who in 40 years has traveled well over 1,000,000 miles, still trots the globe almost as fast and far as ever...
...Dame. They raised Steinway Hall's roof with incessant rehearsals. They were out to prove, once & for all, that opera does not have to be sung by middle-aged tenors and bulging contraltos. Between arias, they hotly argued this revolutionary' idea over hamburgers and milk in the 57th Street Automat. To the participants the New Opera is more than opera: it is a crusade. They came from all over the U.S., Canada, Mexico, even Hawaii, picked by audition from thousands of young singers who have applied for a chance to prove that they could sing big-time opera...