Word: bloodedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The little Army mail plane squealed to a stop on Rio's airport. Out stepped a half-naked Indian. He was Chief Inai Cachirere of Matto Grosso's Javaes Indians. In broken Portuguese he demanded an audience with General Candido Rondon, 80, begetter of Brazil's enlightened...
The President had also found strength and counsel in other Roosevelt holdovers. Speechwriter Sam Rosenman had been persuaded to stay, at least for another year. Owlish Judge Vinson, the Economic Stabilizer, was now top adviser on domestic affairs. Jimmy Byrnes, working on a special project at his Spartanburg (S.C.) home...
That was the mission of all Marines-the 2nd at Tarawa, the 3rd, 4th, 5th at Iwo Jima. The new 6th Marine Division was also fighting on Okinawa (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), and the Marines had gallant Army company. Until recently when the 6th Marine Division joined them, all the heaviest...
Enrico Caruso, probably the most popular singer of all time, lived a life as tempestuous, verbena-scented and romantic as any Verdi libretto. He was already a mature (45) and wealthy idol (and the father of two illegitimate sons) when he met convent-reared Dorothy Park Benjamin, courted her under...
Common Ground is about some U.S.O. entertainers captured by the enemy just before the liberation of Naples. The melting-pot troupe (Jewish comedian, Italian-born vaudevillian, Hollywood actor of German descent, etc.) faces a cold-blooded Nazi colonel who orders the Jew to a concentration camp, gives the others the...