Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harmonious Feeling. Lean, long-legged Noel Haviland Field was born in London of an English mother and an American father. In 1920 he came to the U.S. with his German wife Herta, went to Harvard. In the early '30s he worked for the State Department's Western European section. In 1936 he switched to the disarmament section of the League of Nations in Geneva. Herta, it was rumored, did not like...
...hereditary peer is Canada-born, self-made Lord Beaverbrook. He was made first Baron of Beaverbrook in 1917 for "political services rendered...
Into the White House went Swiss-born Sculptor Ernest Durig's bust of a smiling...
Professor Albion's interest is the sea. He was born in Malden but managed to grow up on Maine's Casco Bay; by World War I his seafaring ancestry was showing its effect, and Albion joined the Naval Reserve. After what he calls a "delightful" series of training eruises, Albion began to feel that he would like a little combat action, so he jumped leagues and promoted himself a commission as an infantry licutenant...
...readers had ever heard of him. Magister Ludi, his last and his greatest book, is not likely to make Hesse popular with them, but it will at least serve to give them an idea of what his dry, remote, ironic and highly individual writing amounts to. Hesse was born in Germany 72 years ago, wrote autobiographical novels and lyric poetry in his youth-he is considered one of the best German lyric poets since the age of Goethe -became a Swiss citizen during World War I in protest against German militarism. He traveled in India, wrote a volume on Hindu...