Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Culture Marches. But the crowning event of the Metropolitan's jubilee opening did not occur on the stage. It was the achievement of Mrs. Henry L. Doherty, widow of the utilities magnate (Cities Service). Seated among Manhattan's beauty and chivalry in the Metropolitan's bar, over a bottle of vintage '28 champagne, plump, vigorous Mrs. Doherty treated a press photographer to a fine demonstration of the simple, or one-ply, nose-thumb. The gesture had true sweep, high photogenic quality (see cut), and was generally conceded to be the most striking cultural event...
...bore down heavily on U.S. home-front difficulties, relating that food distribution had been taken over by "gangsters whose experience in the Prohibition days is proving of great value." Takamoto Hosokawa, onetime New York correspondent for the newspaper Asahi, looked hopefully to U.S. political turmoil next year: "In the event Roosevelt is eliminated," said he, "there will be an estrangement in relations with England, and a darkening state will develop internally...
...Without benefit of the thunderous phrase, Churchill also said that: The Russian advance was the outstanding event of the year; the French National Committee is trustee, not owner, of title deeds to France; the Germans continue to fight with veteran skill and must be defeated at the fronts; the British Empire has an "inexpiable quarrel" with Japan; and next year's elections in the U.S. are of interest to all the Allies...
...might be imagined that the position of Stalin after the war will be such that he and his party need not fear an opposition press. . . . But, in any event, Americans who believe that there resides some virtue in a free press ought to be thankful to Judge Hull. . . . The matter of a free press is now on the peace table agenda...
Dodds, who has run a 4:06.1 mile for the fastest citizen's time officially recorded, recently requested permission to enter the 3.7 mile Handicap Course event in order to practice for coming mile contests...