Word: exits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week troubled Latin American diplomats were drawing two conclusions: 1) hesitant, muddled management has seriously weakened the U.S. Good Neighbor policy; 2) the resignation of Charter Good Neighbor Sumner Welles is being followed by a gradual purge of Welles men from OARA. Chief Duggan's exit will be followed by that of at least one important subordinate...
...Shewsbury) Cobb, 67, famed humorist; of dropsy; in Manhattan. Kentuckian Cobb, Paducah's favorite son, was culled from daily journalism by the Saturday Evening Post's late George Horace Lorimer, capped his career with ten years (1922-32) as a Hearst Cosmopolitan dependable. He wrote his biographical Exit Laughing in 1941, after facing Hollywood cameras in several cinecures. After his death appeared a long valedictory Cobb had written a few months before. Cobb admirers thought it had elements of a classic. Excerpts : "When convenience suits, I ask that the plain canister-nothing fancy there, please-containing my ashes...
Pressure Within. Fright is not enough to break the German hold on Bulgaria. If anything, the Germans have recently tightened their grip. But, unable to throw out the Nazis immediately, Bulgarians can and do look around for a future exit from...
While the ruling classes walk toward the exit, plain Bulgarians are beginning to run. At the country's two political extremes stand: 1) pro-Nazi army commanders, intelligentsia, court figures around Prince Cyril, one of the three regents and brother of the late King Boris; 2) the Communist-led underground. Between stands a potential peacemaker: former Premier Nicholas Mushanoff, leader of the only legal opposition, the Democratic Party...
Somewhere on the seven seas a 19-year-old Navy fireman was inside a minesweeper's boiler, chipping off scale, when somebody turned on the steam. Three times the boy plunged at the "curtain of steam and boiling water," across the only exit, twice collided with an electric fan before he got out. When he reached a hospital ship an hour and a half later, he was probably the most severely burned man on medical record. Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire had scorched 55% of Coast Guardsman Clifford Johnson's body, and his survival was considered...