Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...
...Hollywood blood-and-thunder war movies, all of which preach some sort of a hackneyed message, there is nothing more refreshing than to see a brilliant war film like the twelve year-old "Grand Illusion." Starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, this old-French epic concerns the fate of a group of French prisoners in Germany during the first World...
Gabin and two other French officers are captured in the early days of the war and, after being treated with extreme courtesy by the members of a German fighter squadron at the front, are shuttled through a long series of PW camps inside Germany. The film deals with their fate, the death of one of them, and the subsequent escape of the other...
Second place was the fate of all Crimson entries in the 23rd annual Kinights of Columbus track meet at the Boston Garden Sunday afternoon...
...Stop. Word flashed through Durban that an Indian shopkeeper in the central market had brutally beaten a Zulu boy. Some said the boy had been killed, but few waited to learn his fate. In Victoria Street a band of infuriated blacks bore down on some Indians patiently queueing for a bus, and began hurling stones and broken bottles. From there the rioting spread to Durban's Indian quarter in the heart of the city, where other bands of blacks smashed windows, pillaged and looted. Indians huddled in terror behind their shops...