Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ALBERT S. COOK...
Before guests invited to a BBC rehearsal in London's Albert Hall, Sir Adrian told his men that they were "all too tired to play their best." He advised them to emulate him by resting up weekends, specifically forbade golf, gardening and repair work on blitzed houses. "A little washing up" (but not too much) was sufficient exercise, he said...
Teetotaler? In Springfield, Ill., a thief broke into Albert Mills's tavern, made off with seven cases of empty beer bottles...
...Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst Kalten-brunner, originator of mass execution by gas, and Albert Speer. the brilliant, ruthless organizer of German war production. Of the 24 not more than half were Prussians...
Atmosphere of 1924. That night the Generalissimo wined & dined Mao. Other guests included Ambassador Hurley, tactful Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, and round-faced General Chou Enlai, China's No. 2 Communist. Chiang and Mao toasted each other in yellow wine. The Communist leader quaffed his cup; the Generalissimo (a teetotaler) barely wet his lips. Said Chiang: "I hope we can have the cordial atmosphere...