Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during World War I. Destiny, in the anonymous guise of a War Office bureaucrat, sent him to the eastern front. There, he was captured by (or deserted to) the Russians, was packed off to Siberia. In 1917, Tito entered the Red Army, fought in the Russian civil war, was chosen for special training as a Communist foreign agent, became indelibly indoctrinated with the century's great new faith. During his novitiate, he found time to marry a Russian girl who bore him a son, Zharko (today one of Belgrade's gayest problem-playboys...
Tito, whose first wife is dead, is currently married to a thirtyish, pretty graduate of Belgrade's School of Business Administration, but she is kept in the background (he is rumored to have a mistress). He has chosen ex-King Peter's palace at Bled for his summer residence, ex-Regent Paul's Bell Dvor (White Palace) on Belgrade's Dedinje Hill for his town house (it has Belgrade's only good air-raid shelter...
China, racked by civil war, inflation and famine, took time out to honor an old U.S. custom-the beauty contest.* In Shanghai, Miss Wong Yung-mai, striking a traditional pose, was chosen Miss Shanghai 1946, in a contest staged to raise funds for famine relief. Contestants were selected for personality rather than physical charm. Bathing suits were ruled...
...griping because so many veterans have chosen to remain members of the 52-20 Club. It looks as if these boys, who decided to draw $20 a week for a full year rather than look for jobs, were the smart ones...
...place: All-Saints-by-the-Sea in Santa Barbara, Calif. The occasion: the first consecration in the U.S. of an Oriental bishop. Episcopal bishops are usually consecrated in cathedrals, but China-born Rt. Rev. Quentin K. Y. Huang, who studied for the ministry in the U.S., had deliberately chosen the tiny (300 communicants) church at Santa Barbara. Reason: for several years it had been the only guaranteed source of financial support for relief work he directed in China...