Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old boy from Germany, these folksy, windy lines from Carl Sandburg's Corn Huskers looked 100% American. Five years ago, Composer Lukas Foss, a German-born boy with prodigious energy and an engaging grin, set to work putting Sandburg's verses to music. It was a labor of love for the adopted country he yearned to understand and be a part of. Last week Composer Foss proudly heard his first big cantata, The Prairie, performed in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall by four competent singers, the Westminster Choir and Artur Rodzinski's Philharmonic-Symphony...
...General MacArthur, aboard his flagship, who told LIFE Photographer Carl Mydans of Chickering's death. "Our losses have been small in this operation," MacArthur said, "but you feel them heavily when close friends...
...part of each day sitting in the doorway of the captain's cabin. He had the air of a man whose work was already done: the planning had been so complete that he had only a few short conferences with his staff. With satisfaction he told LIFE Photographer Carl Mydans: "This is the same route I followed when I came out of the Philippines in a PT boat . . . exactly that route...
...Forces' thinkers as well as doers, with a talent for staff work and planning, and an added gift of good looks and attractive, easy manner. He gets along with people-and he has got along famously with Air Forces Chief Henry H. Arnold, General Eisenhower, Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, Jimmy Doolittle, many others...
Said thoughtful, eloquent Carl A. Berendsen, New Zealand's Minister to the U.S. and veteran of many a League of Nations conference, at a victory rally in Manhattan...