Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Czernyha '51 was born in Poland. When the Germans invaded his Russian-occupied country in 1939, Czernyha was studying at the Lwow Medical School. Because he was actively engaged in several anti-communist youth organizations, the German invasion saved him and his family from deportation to Siberia...
...Born in the province of Slovinia in Poland Anton Bajuk '51 joined Marshall Tito's "front of liberation" in 1943 to strike back at the Germans who were oppressing his homeland...
...Born and brought up within walking distance of the Yard, and graduated from Cambridge High and Latin School, Anderson never had any doubt about which college he would attend. He entered Harvard in 1925. Since he had always been interested in music and had written his first composition at the age of 12, he majored in that subject...
Died. Solomon R. Guggenheim, 88, last of the seven Guggenheim brothers who, with their father, a Swiss-born peddler of household knickknacks, ran a $25,000 investment in two Colorado silver mines into one of the world's largest fortunes; in Port Washington, N.Y. With earnings from his share in his family's international mining interests (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin), Solomon donated millions to charity (mostly anonymously), in 1947 gave some $4,000,000 to establish the fourth of the famed Guggenheim foundations† which supports Manhattan's avant-garde Museum of Non-Objective Painting...
...United States, but I was ready and willing." In Montgomery she went to supper with Governor Moore ("The old sinner has been making himself ridiculous with that little actress Maggie Mitchell"). She saw a Negro woman sold into slavery: "My very soul sickened." She said to a Northern-born woman: "If you can stand that, no other Southern thing need choke...