Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commanding in central and southern Italy was Air Marshal and General Albert Kesselring, who just missed death last week when his headquarters near Rome was bombed. His task was to resist, at a chosen point, the Allied penetration of lower Italy...
...boosted to deputy commander of the Eighth. Short, broad-chested, Bill Kepner won a Distinguished Service Cross for capturing a German machine gun singlehanded in World War I. In the 1920s he was one of the Army's top airship pilots. Nine years ago he and Captain Albert W. Stevens took an Army-National Geographic Society balloon to 60,613 ft. over South Dakota before the bag ripped and they had to leave their airtight gondola (roared Bill Kepner into his radio mike: "This damned thing has gone nuts!") Not until the gondola had plummeted...
England's 18th Century master of graphic razz and uproar, Caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson, last week enlivened the Boston art scene: some 100 selected Rowlandsons hung on the walls of the Boston Public Library. They came from the Library's Albert H. Wiggin* Collection of Prints, Drawings, and Books-one of the world's finest...
...Albert-Leonold Clement Marie, King of Belgium, was the guest of the University on October 5, 1919 when President Lowell, in behalf of the University conferred the LL.D. on King Albert in the Faculty Room of University Hall. In addition to the usual Latin inscription, the parchment bore the quotation from Shakespeare, "Aye, every inch a king...
...King was greatly impressed after the ceremony when he was taken around the College. The Stadium struck his attention, but it was the Freshman dormitories that particularly amazed King Albert. He was also quite surprised at the number of men in the Freshman class...