Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery gave up caravan-living, bedded himself down in a 75-room, 17thCentury castle near Oldendorf, Germany. (The castle's ex-tenant. Baron von Vincke, got a room over a bar in the village...
Gold and Tungsten. Sinkiang is mostly a vast grazing land, cut up by high mountains, in which are valuable gold and tungsten deposits and narrow, fertile valleys. Its capital, Tihwa (Urumchi), is the crossroads of the age-old silk caravan routes between China and the West...
...talking against the steady roar of supply trucks passing outside. Around midnight they went to bed. Eisenhower and Bradley took two bedrooms upstairs. Patton's heavy boots clattered across the bare floors of the former German commandant's house, down the front steps and out to the caravan where he slept...
...Cover Girl Caravan." It was Vetluguin, however, who had the original idea for Cover Girl, which proved to be the turning point of her career. But without Colby there probably would have been no such musical film. Good models were not anxious to exchange the security of New York for the risks of Hollywood. Magazine publishers, remembering an unfortunate B-picture called The Powers Girl, were leary of the whole idea...
...adventures of the "Cover Girl Caravan" in its special car en route to the Coast, and the girls' adventures in their Beverly Hills house under "Mother" Colby's chaperonage (with eight "wolves" howling at the door one night and Mickey Rooney turning handsprings on the lawn another),made endless gossip-column copy. Colby followed up with personal calls on editors in 40 major cities. When Cover Girl finally appeared, it may not have been the best picture ever made, but it was certainly one of the best publicized. And Colby's reputation was made...