Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's twin-towered Waldorf-Astoria, 125 of the season's debutantes danced their way into society while eager sub-debs looked enviously on. The event: the nth annual Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball, to benefit the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. The sponsor: Coty...
...news for lonely hearts who fear that the human race may be alone in the universe. Life as we know it is possible only on a planet, and planets, until recently, were considered freaks. Their formation was believed to require the near-collision of two stars, an exceedingly rare event...
...possible meaning of Negro Americans to all white Christians, Historian Arnold J. Toynbee wrote (in his monumental work-in-progress, A Study of History): "The Negro appears to be answering our tremendous challenge with a religious response which may prove in the event, when it can be seen in retrospect, to bear comparison with the ancient Oriental's response to the challenge from his Roman masters. . . . Opening a simple and impressionable mind to the Gospels, he has divined the true nature of Jesus' mission. He has understood that this was a prophet who came into the world...
...most important event on the world stage last week was something that did not happen. Despite its intense interest and ambitions in the Middle East (see below), Russia failed to react when the Persian Government sent troops into Azerbaijan Province to supervise elections and to reassert Teheran's authority. The outcome was U.N.'s first practical victory in its fight to keep the peace...
...slight and the latter is slick. Full of such odd characters as a valet recruited from the Salvation Army who refers to himself as "we" and a typical Edward Everett Horton queer played by Edward Everett Horton, the picture supplies at least a token of filler between the main-event Rogers Astaire routines...