Word: ch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mistinguett, ancient (seventyish) Parisian music-hall favorite whose shapely legs have outlasted two World Wars, saw Marlene Dietrich perform in Paris, cooed to a lobby listener: "Marlene was marvelous, but, chérie, you know, she's really getting very...
...soccer lineup for the Tufts game: g Arias, rf Reckis, lf Ransom, ch McKinney, rh Ruibal, lf Seamons, ol Chen, il Chun, cf Miller, ir Azcarraga, or Dawson...
Died. Dr. John Calvin Ferguson, 79, longtime adviser to Chinese governments, founder and first president of Nanking University, ex-president of Nanyang College (now National Ch'iao Tung University), onetime Shanghai newspaper publisher (Sin Wan Pao, Shanghai Times), Chinese art authority; in Clifton Springs, N.Y., 20 months after his repatriation from Jap internment at Peiping...
...bomber gored through the thick steel and stone of the building as if they were papier-mâché. Then, in a flash of flame, the gasoline tanks exploded. In another instant flames leaped and seeped inside & outside the building...
...overall impression of the United Nations show is of a hasty hodgepodge: oriental rugs, Central American tombstones, early Sumerian sculpture, a strictly Tsarist Russian picture of the jigsaw-puzzle school-and a few really fine things like the stone Hand of a Buddha from China's northern Ch'i dynasty, Honoré Daumier's Crispin and Scapin and Rembrandt's Man with Turban...