Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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You Are There (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS) at the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
At Lever House in Cambridge, Mass., Luckman practices his belief that the best management makes the big plans, delegates their execution. He has surrounded himself with a "first team" of six new, youngish vice presidents. Says Boss Luckman: "They carry the ball. All I do is call the signals."
MacArthur cajoled the Cabinet and the Diet into creating a new constitution, which was not only a democratic marvel (in form) but also contained a renunciation of war. Labor organizations were set up and encouraged to assert their rights. War criminals were brought to trial. Several of them, on the...
Moscow has recently debunked other Western delusions of grandeur. The steam engine, it seems, was not invented by Britain's James Watt, but by Ivan Polzunov. Thomas Edison gets false credit for the light bulb; Alexander Lodygin thought it up first. The first airplane was not constructed by Wilbur...
Died. U Saw, 47, dapper, wily onetime Premier of Burma (1940-41); by execution (hanging); in Insein, Burma. A leader of the independence movement, he was interned by the British in 1942 for collaboration with the Japanese. Freed in 1946, he lost out to Premier Aung San in the postwar...