Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foulest & Vilest." First witness was Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, of the British medical corps ("I have never seen anything that would touch [Belsen]. . . . There were piles of corpses lying all over the camp. . . . The huts were full to overflowing with prisoners in every state of emaciation and disease. There was every known variety of disease in that camp Dead lay where they fell . . ."). His testimony would have been enough to hang most of the 45 defendants (who are charged with an average 1,000 murders each). But there were other witnesses...
Hirohito consented to pose with MacArthur for a Signal Corps picture. Then he and the Supreme Commander talked alone (through an interpreter) for 38 minutes. When he came out, the Emperor saw a cluster of U.S. correspondents, doffed his high hat and just perceptibly bowed.
"I Try To Be Kind." Though Danilova has settled in the U.S., her most enthusiastic public is in London, the home of sad-faced Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks), her rival queen of ballet. The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev...
Government to subsidize ballet. Says she: "A bunch of foreigners have brought the ballet into the country - now I would like that it could stay and be an American institution." Monte Carlo's Queen. In the severe Russian tradition, Danilova started training at eight, when her aunt put her...
After Impresario Diaghilev's death, the Ballet Russe was taken over by an ex-Cossack, Colonel Wassily de Basil, has since split into a number of pieces, each claiming to be the truest chip off the old block. Markova eventually became No. 1 ballerina of the heavily subsidized, well...