Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father was a Congregationalist minister from Seville, Ohio. He was progressive, and even accepted Darwin's version of Genesis. As a little girl, Anna Louise Strong believed in a lot of things. First, she recalls, she went for the idea that every human being has a soulmate; but she never found one. Then she believed that she could crowd a thousand lives into one lifetime-to be "a North Pole explorer, a great writer, a mother of ten." She turned out to be none of these things...
...tornado whirled her from her parents' porch in Friend, Neb. to a nearby cow pasture. "I was somewhat worried by the cows," she recalls. "I found the storms of nature friendlier than the whims of living creatures." Her teacher noted that "she always expects people to like her." Anna Louise Strong soon discovered that a lot of people did not like her. Says she: "I became very friendly with...
...into the patronizing worship of the proletariat which came to be fashionable in the early 20th Century. Once she told a friend: "I want to find someone who will tell me just what I must do about everything, and then I will do it." When revolution came to Russia, Anna Louise Strong found her master. Said she: "For me the Party combines all the early gods of my youth...
...Restful Eyes. From the beginning, Anna Louise Strong was not quite happy with her Communist god. When she went to Russia as a relief worker for the American Friends' Service Committee, and later as a U.S. correspondent, her enthusiasm for the cause met with limited response. She tried to join the Russian Communist Party. She was refused.* Taunted a Russian comrade: "A sentimental bourgeois like...
Born. To Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret), 58, hawk-faced ex-skipper of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force who now runs a Chinese commercial airline, and Anna Chan Chennault, 25, former Shanghai newspaperwoman: their first child (he had eight others by a previous marriage), a daughter; in Canton. Name: Claire Anna. Weight...