Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milan, Ferrara. the city of Lucrezia Borgia- a woman the Communists would have appreciated: learned and turbulent Bologna, Dante's soft symmetrical Florence; Dandolo's capitalist Venice. The Communists hold Leghorn, where Shelley spent some of his waning days, and Galileo's Pisa, and Parma, famous for violets and Toscanini...
...last week, Jim's-strike was famous all over the world as the oldest strike in Eire's trade-union history. Sailors from ports Jim never heard of often write to ask him how it's coming on. Every year Britain's newspaper boys come over to get a birthday-celebration spread in the Sunday features. The publicity Jim got at the eighth birthday party gave his business such a spurt that Downey's is closed two days a week now for lack of stock. "Sure the extra rest will do the boys no harm...
...Another famous private school had a new head last week. Roxbury Latin, which, unlike Andover, still makes Latin compulsory for all hands, chose Frederick R. Weed, 41, as the youngest headmaster in its 300-year history. Weed went to public school, graduated from Harvard, was in banking before he took up teaching. A committee headed by Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, an old Roxbury boy himself, picked Weed...
...swimming and fishing. Usually his family is with him-wife Beatriz, .son Miguel, 15, daughter Beatriz, 14; for the present, month-old Jorge Francisco stays in the Mexico City nursery. On Monday Aléman is back at his palace desk by 9, tanned, rested and smiling the famous smile. "Mexico has had its Revolution," he is apt to say then. "It is time to go to work...
Transcribed shows had Big Radio-NBC and CBS-worried. Big Radio's power has always rested chiefly on its near-monopoly of famous entertainers. Last fall, Bing Crosby fled the fold. He recorded his weekly show, sold it to 208 ABC stations-and over the head of at least one big network to some of its member stations. Total Crosby stations: 400. The advantages: Bing can record the show any time he likes, can edit it before it reaches the air. If other big names followed Bing's lead, the big networks might lose control of their affiliates...