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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jail, but in 1901 he escaped, disguised as a Buddhist priest. In 1917 Kim decided that periodic prison stretches were interfering with his efficiency as an assassin, transferred his base of operations to Shanghai. There he organized a bombing which killed a Japanese general, mutilated a Japanese admiral and blew a leg off Mamoru Shigemitsu, who later signed Japan's World War II surrender aboard the Missouri. This made Kim a topflight Korean hero, a position which he reinforced by marrying the daughter of An Chung-kuen, another Korean hero who had assassinated Prince Ito, Japan's first...
Grim Backdrop. Promptly at noon the two leaders, arm in arm, walked down the marble steps of the high-vaulted National Assembly Chamber to a lectern decked with the flags of the Korean Republic, the U.S. and the U.N. Through gaping windows blew the strong, sickly sweet smell of corpses lying in shattered buildings outside. Now & then wisps of ash drifted in, and tinkling splinters of glass fell from the broken skylight above...
Bubbles & Cheers. What sort of teacher do students remember? "They always recall the ill-tempered and eccentric [ones]-Miss Crab, who hit them with the pointer, and Mr. Fizz, who blew bubbles." The'y also remember such teachers as Harvard's George Lyman Kittredge, who lectured w'ith such ferocity that he. once tumbled-off his platform, or such men as History Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton who spoke with such clarity and conviction that his students would burst into cheers. "But next to those," says Gilbert Highet, "they remember the teachers who made them remember...
...Wind. It was an ill wind, in fact a hurricane, which blew Ottinger into the plywood business. Part of his father's $100,000 had been used to buy a big grove of gum trees near Corbin, La., in an experiment to dye living trees to make the wood look like mahogany. The experiment worked but nobody wanted to buy the wood, so Ottinger lost his shirt. When a hurricane blew down so many nearby oak trees that Ottinger got them just for hauling them away, he found himself in the lumber business. He became such a lumber expert...
That night the town gave Grandma a 100-place birthday banquet. She easily blew out all 90 candles on her 79-lb. cake, told well-wishers that she felt "no older than I did at 70." Highlight of her day was a congratulatory wire from President Truman: "May the spirit of spring and eternal sunshine be yours always...