Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High School Refugee Camp one day last week, eleven-year-old Rosalinda Andoy washed her face and hands carefully, combed her straight black hair with a part on the side, put on her best pink dress. Then she was taken across the hot, wrecked city to the high-ceMnged ballroom where Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita was on trial for war crimes committed by his troops. She sat gravely in the witness chair, tried to tilt her dangling feet to keep her sandals from falling off, and told why she was an orphan...
...shell-scarred, balconied Manila ballroom Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita, onetime "Tiger of Malaya" and "Beast of Bataan," was on trial for his life. He looked incredibly tame and safe, a froglike man in a green uniform who sat shaven-headed, sleepy-eyed, almost motionless at a long table. Occasionally he smiled. In the ordered courtroom uniformed attorneys shuffled papers, entered objections, laboriously introduced exhibits...
...cavernous ballroom of Manhattan's plushy Waldorf-Astoria, rich-voiced Paul Robeson recited 1,300 words of poetic prose written for the occasion by Radio Writer Norman Corwin and dedicated to an atomic world: "Set Your Clock at U-235." Then came General of the Army George C. Marshall, to say less flamboyantly that "there appear to be no short cuts to a better world." Two nights and 39 speeches later, the 14th annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems had done its duty by its solemn theme, "Responsibility of Victory." Four Cabinet members, statesmen...
...gilded ballroom of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac, where delegates were served with black caviar from Lake Winnipeg and salmon from the Gaspe, the new United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization came alive. Its job: to do something about hunger in the postwar world...
After the reception, the guests adjourned to a $20,000 ballroom-a tent with wood floor-built on the lawn for the occasion. Pink-and-silver silk, matching Betty's gown, hid the ceiling; great chandeliers held masses of pink gladioli. Two 20-piece or chestras (Meyer Davis and Ruby Newman) played chaste, danceable music through the night...