Word: altos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Ann Clare Brokaw, 19, daughter of Connecticut Representative Clare Boothe Luce and Henry R. Luce; in an automobile accident in Palo Alto, Calif. A senior in Stanford University, majoring in political science and philosophy, she was on her way with a classmate to register for her last term. Congresswoman Luce was in California to spend her vacation with her daughter before proceeding on a speaking tour...
Three years later. Herbert Hoover, then a young mining engineer in Australia, sped back to Palo Alto to marry Lou Henry. They spent their honeymoon on a ship to China, en route to his new job as director of China's mines. Thereafter, for twelve years, Lou Henry Hoover made homes all over the world-Peking, Tientsin, Tokyo, Mandalay, Australia, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Paris, London. By the time her first son, Herbert Jr., was three years old he had been around the world three times...
...have the largest U.S. university program for the specialized training of soldiers, is widely expanding its Far Eastern research, is playing a major role in bringing the U.S. into a global educational setup. For two weeks every month Paul Hanna leaves his wife and children and a Palo Alto hilltop which in peacetime was a tripper's cynosure: a redwood, cement and sheet-glass honeycomb architectured by Frank Lloyd Wright...
Among the fringier gents of the "give it hell" school of Chicago jazz is Boyco Brown, the alto saxophonist, who not only studies metaphysics but applies them to his musicianship and even his everyday existence. When he tangled with spiritual Tut Soper (who also plays phenomenal piano) the lid was off and it was strictly a case for the man with...
Giustizia mosse il mio alto Fattore; fecemi la divina Potestate, la somma Sapienza e il primo Amore. . . . Lasciate ogni speranza qui voi ch'en-trate...