Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Berlin to Bari, from Malaga to Manchester, the news of the Russian bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) struck with vastly varying impact. In some places, it cut deep along taut nerves; in others, it slid smoothly off the backs of nations long numbed by constant danger. Nowhere did it provoke the apocalyptic shudders which had attended the world's first atomic explosions; in the Atomic Year V, men still dreaded the unchained atom, but they had gotten used to the idea that they must live with it. The question was, how? How would the Other Bomb affect the great...
...switchover from military to civilian rule was a hectic experience for the people on occupation duty. U.S. occupation headquarters, which had moved from Berlin to Frankfurt in August, was in turmoil. One by one, General Lucius Clay's top men had resigned; personnel had been slashed from 2,300 to 1,400. New men were coming in. In Berlin, 200 families of U.S. officials were waiting anxiously for houses in or near overcrowded Frankfurt. The old headquarters of OMGUS (Office of Military Government for Germany, U.S.), where Clay had sat out the blockade, was deserted...
...Though Lautrec had made Broadway. Dancers in the "Only for Americans" number from the current Sherwood-Berlin musical, Miss Liberty, all sport copies of gowns worn by the stars of the Paris music halls, as shown in Lautrec's posters and other lithographs...
Divorced. By Mary Ellin Berlin Burden, 22, brunette daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin and Postal Telegraph Heiress-Novelist Ellin Mackay (Lace Curtain) Berlin: Socialite Dennis Sheedy Burden, 29; after 14 months of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...Idpmann, who was born in Germany in 1899, received the M.D. (1922) and Ph.D. (1927) from the University of Berlin. After several years of research work with the Carlsberg Foundation in Denmark, and a year as a Rockefeller Fellow (1931-32), he continued his research at Cornell and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He became an associate at the Harvard Medical School...