Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conservative head of a coalition government made up mostly of Liberals, good grey President Mariano Ospina Pérez had more than personal reasons to want the violence stopped. To keep the epidemic from spreading into Bogotá, Ospina last week banned all public meetings from April 8 to 18. That took care of the first anniversary of the assassination of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (TIME, April 19), an occasion which some Liberals had planned to exploit to its riotous limit. Then Ospina summoned the bosses of both major parties to see what could...
...begin with, nearly a million had seen the collection in Washington last March and April. Then the U.S. Army sent it on tour (TIME, May 10), and another million in twelve cities had had a look-paying some $290,000 (to be used as relief for needy German children) for the privilege. In St. Louis alone, a record 227,414 jammed the City Art Museum during an 18-day exhibition, outdoing even the Manhattan attendance by some 90,000. This week in Toledo the collection is making its final appearance before being returned to Germany...
Town & Country has been quietly slipping ever since Editor Harry Bull resigned from the 100-year-old Hearst-owned monthly (TIME, April 28, 1947). Bull's successor, Paris-born Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, didn't make the grade. Casting around for somebody new, the top Hearst brass asked ex-Hearstling Sell whether he knew a good editor. Said Sell: "Yes, me!" It was a deal, with the understanding that Editor Sell would go on running his meat business and keeping an eye on his Blaker Advertising Agency...
...three-day scholastic assembly reaches its climax on Saturday, April 2nd, with the inauguration of Dr. James R. Killian, Jr. as M.I.T.'s tenth president...
Harold J. Laski, high ranking British Labor party member, has been invited to speak at the Harvard Law Forum on April 26, Roland Brown 3L, president of the Forum, announced yesterday...