Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy Field Marshal Albert Kesselring could smell spring in the air. For the Field Marshal, spring and better weather might mean an all-out assault upon his lines. Already, at some points, the Allies were attacking. Using tactics old when General James Wolfe scaled Quebec's heights in 1759, Major General George P. Hayes's roth Mountain Division was jolting the German loose from the Apennine positions upon which he had based the center of his line. South of Bologna expert climbers set ropes on sheer cliff faces. Up those ropes swarmed the troops to catch the Nazis...
Lady of the Lake. Of the Italian refugees in Switzerland, the one with the best chance of returning to Italy had nothing to do with the Italian Fascists. She was Princess Marie-José, daughter of the late King Albert of the Belgians and wife of Italy's Crown Prince Umberto. She lived quietly, with her children and her sedate sister-in-law, Countess Calvi di Bergolo, waiting to see if Italy would be safe for monarchy...
...Albert Einstein, for his scientific skepticism in scoffing at the notion that eggs stand on end in China on the first day of the Chinese spring (TIME, Feb. 12) was taken to task by Chen Kuo-fu, head of China's radio network, who told Einstein off as follows: the first day of spring in China begins when the surface of the sun toward the earth is largest, thus attracting the eggs to stand on end. Chen Kuo-fu added that he believed the sun was not round, asked Einstein to "look into the matter...
...Albert Forster of Seaham, county of Durham, had prompted these observations by a letter to the Lancet on the mild nutritional disease common in Britain's "one-ration-book households." Women living alone often do not get enough meat and fruit, fail to eat raw vegetables. Many would rather just have a meal of tea, bread and margarine than bother with vegetables...
...literary classics and near-classics translate rather stodgily to the screen, no matter how faithful the adaptation. Oscar Wilde's famed and fancy morality legend is an exception. Its epigrams speak even more sharply than they read, and its dramatic essence is vividly visual. But though Writer-Director Albert Lewin, who also did The Moon and Sixpence (TIME, Oct. 19, 1942) deserves respect for a notably hard try, and though his Picture has some elegance, interest and excitement, it falls far short of what it should have been...