Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bolster the authority of pro-Axis Premier Ion Antonescu, fresh batches of Gestapo agents arrived in Bucharest. Temporarily as in neighboring Bulgaria (TiME, Jan. 10), the Nazi hold might be strong enough to prevent outright defection. But neither the Nazis nor the orders of the quisling Premier could halt Rumania's rising panic...
...April, the Red Army published a map showing the gains of the previous winter. On the western fringe of that map lay Odessa, Kiev, Mogilev, Vitebsk-all still deep in the enemy's rear. On the western fringe of the map published in Moscow newspapers last week lay Bucharest, Warsaw, Konigsberg in East Prussia...
...Rumania, has the serious appearance of most earnest satirists. His father was a box manufacturer, his mother "made wonderful cakes with all sorts of decorations. They were so beautiful I didn't even have the courage to eat them." After a year of philosophy at the University of Bucharest, young Steinberg decided that architecture was his field, Italy the country to study it in. He was seven years getting his degree because he spent so much time drawing...
Blonde, brown-eyed Jackie Cochran got into almost everything early. At four she was orphaned, at 14 she was an experienced beauty-parlor operator, at 24 she was about to enter the London-Melbourne race as the only U.S. woman flyer (she only made Bucharest). Today she is not quite 34, and the acknowledged No. 1 feminine flyer of the U.S., the successful manager of a cosmetic business and a model orphanage, the mistress of four country and city homes, the wife of Big Businessman Floyd Odium...
...Nazis' Bucharest radio was loudly urging the Russians to make a separate peace. Said the broadcaster in Russian: "Stalin is trying to prolong the war by promising his people help from the Allies. But the Russians have now seen that the Allies do not intend to give serious aid. The Anglo-American press openly repudiates all promises of further assistance; consequently the Russian people have grown angry, feeling they have been duped. Further extension of the war is nothing less than suicide for Russia...