Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As a former colonial (bwana), permit me to congratulate you on James Whitmore's photographs of central Africa [May 20]. They shed new light on what is frequently called the dark continent.
As the months passed it became obvious that the Pasadena idea was not working out. The staff had to plane back and forth across the continent so much that they began calling the foundation the "Fund for the Advancement of Aviation." To make matters worse, Hoffman infuriated Henry Ford II...
Lace & Mendelssohn. The wonder of Elgar's career (he died in 1934 at 76) was not that he failed to become a great composer but that he accomplished as much as he did in the stale, lace-curtained musical atmosphere of mid-Victorian Worcester, where he grew up. The...
In a fierce skirmish of the Korean war in late 1950, Army Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud Jr., an American Indian from Wisconsin, died gallantly, won the U.S. Medal of Honor for holding his position, though mortally wounded. At ceremonies earlier this month, honoring Red Cloud and other Indians killed in...
Special Pleading. When Lieut. General Alan Brooke went to the Continent as a corps commander in 1939, he began to keep a diary for his wife. Standing alone, his notes would have been interesting and not very readable. But Viscount Alanbrooke has been lucky in having the help of Co...