Word: begun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murky dawn hour when Kiev fell, the battle for the Dnieper had virtually ended, the battle for western Russia had begun...
Exchange of Faith. The precise course of the talks was still unknown. But believable accounts had begun to leak out this week...
Welcome Committee. The lieutenant was, in fact, a guest of the Army. The most elaborate machinery ever devised lor refitting fighting men had begun to roll, and he was among the first to go through it. Developed by the Army Air Forces, the new program is called, in typically tongue-twisting Army language, the A.A.F. Redistribution Center. Two "stations," at Miami Beach and Atlantic City, are in operation. Others are planned for the Midwest and the West Coast...
...famed theatrical producer (The Miracle); of paralysis and pneumonia, after a stroke; in Manhattan. Born near Vienna, the solemn prodigy with the wire-grey pompadour clicked in his first stage role (1893), soon became Berlin's outstanding director. Once praised for the intimate drama, at his Salzburg Festivals (begun in 1920) he out-dreamed a Barnum with his decor, employed huge casts and invited huge guest lists to his Castle Leopoldskron. Celebrated in the U.S. for The Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made a Hollywood comeback...
Marie Corelli, best-seller of the '90s (The Sorrows of Satan), was so sure of her literary immortality that she willed that her Stratford-on-Avon estate be preserved as a shrine-"the home of a great English novelist." Preparations were begun last week, 19 years after her death, to auction the place off because royalties from the Corelli books have not been enough to maintain it. With it goes a genuine gondola which she imported (with a gondolier) from Venice...