Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civil servant (secretary to then Foreign Minister Eduard Benes), later as a diplomat. His post was London, where he was enormously popular. In a crowd he sparkled, but sometimes among small groups and after a few drinks he became deeply, almost tearfully melancholy. Near war's close someone asked Jan Masaryk what his postwar plans were. Said he simply: "I want to go home...
...Salonika last week, the huge concert studio of Radio Macedonia had been turned into a makeshift courtroom. Fenced in by a net of chicken wire, 128 rebel prisoners, captured after the shelling of Salonika last month, hunched together in close-packed seats. The judges, nine army officers, sat on the stage. Around them was stacked the evidence: rifles, machine guns, grenades. A mountain howitzer poked its muzzle out beside a grand piano...
...Varsity basketball game, a see-saw engagement from the start almost to the close, Captain Midge Manson of the Medford team sank the winning point on a Radcliffe foul, two minutes from the finish...
Navy captured the Three Weapon Trophy back in 1943, but Peroy's men, who dropped a close one-point decision to Yale last week, are out to get the honor for the first time in the history of University fencing...
League competitor says Coach Samborski, will be no pushover. He predicts a close race all the way through, with pitching the deciding factor. But Samborski is not too concerned with the long run outlook. All he wants to do at the moment is find a starting nine for the season's start with Johns Hopkins, at the end of the month...