Word: cols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout Asia, men contemplated a new year of fierce breezes. India charged Pakistan with a threat to world peace (see Col. 3). Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek predicted that the Chinese Communists would be beaten by the end of the year; Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung hooted that 1948 would bring still more gains for the Reds. A Shanghai editorial writer said humbly: "We can only pray...
Omar Khayyam, whose pleasantly fatalistic Rubaiyat was a campus favorite in the '90's, was now the best-selling poet at Smith College. The local bookshop reported further that T. S. Eliot (see Col. 3) was way down in fourth place: he trailed Elizabeth Browning and Kahlil Gibran...
...Col. Pantaleoni '21 died in Sicily in August, 1943, while serving with the O.S.S...
Maestro Artur Rodzinski of the Chicago Symphony took a pratfall by trying to take too good care of himself. He failed to turn up at 11 a.m. for the dress rehearsal of Tristan with Flagstad (see col. 3). He was still missing at 2:30 p.m. When he did appear, after another wait, he was still pale around the gills.. Mrs Rodzinski explained: "He took a sleeping pill that didn't work. Then he took another kind. In the morning he is sick. The doctor say the two kinds create a poison...
...Col. College at Col. Springs...