Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meantime, in London the first scare-story appeared. Finland's Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim, 72, was reported gravely ill, watched over by personal physicians. The report was promptly denied...
...Time fights on the side of the Nazis now that peace has been established between Finland and Russia," Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, stated when asked what effect the peace would have on Germany...
From Helsinki, LIFE'S Cameraman Carl Mydans broadcast to the U. S. a description of the fighting on the Isthmus. Likening the war to a football game, Cameraman Mydans left little doubt as to how desperate it had become. Said he: "Last week Russia sent in her first team and the war went into the last quarter...
...going full blast, the audience actually heard little. For, by the time the opening bassoon bleats of Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring) got under way, half the audience was hooting disapproval while the other half was hooting down the hooters. Said one of them later (Carl Van Vechten): "I was sitting in a box. ... A young man occupied the place behind me. . . . The intense excitement under which he was laboring . . . betrayed itself presently when he began to beat rhythmically on the top of my head with his fists. My emotion was so great that I did not feel...
...LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six-volume biography (TIME, Dec. 4). Neither U. S. readers nor, unfortunately, U. S. public men have ever paid enough attention to the prose of Lincoln's speeches in the '50s, disciplined, direct and clear, with "a logical power as sharp and crushing as a battle ax." Because it contains...