Word: fenn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another American, former Marine Lieutenant Charles Fenn (now a novelist writing in Ireland), had helped Ho set up the intelligence operation and occasionally corresponded with him. In one letter, previously unpublished, Ho wrote to Fenn: "The war is won. But we small and subject countries have no share, or very very small share, in the victory of freedom and democracy. Probably if we want to get a sufficient share, we have still to fight." He was right, of course. Ho and his Viet Minh colleagues approached the French as the Pacific war was ending and asked for a measure...
...musical by Meredith Willson (The Music Man) that discovers the pre-embarkation intrigues and romances of Christopher Columbus as he inveigles Queen Isabel to sponsor his voyage to the new world. Stars Richard Cullum, Chita Rivera, and Jean Fenn. Los Angeles, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Sept...
...FENN East Wahroonga, N.S.W., Australia...
...turnaround is largely the result of prolonged prosperity, which not only gives men more money to spend but makes them more conscious of their appearance. "The middle to higher income groups now need a larger wardrobe," says Nicholas Parker, Genesco Inc.'s president for men's wear (Fenn-Feinstein, Roger Kent, Whitehouse & Hardy). This means a more expensive wardrobe: more men now buy suits in the $90 to $150 range, pay $6 or $8 for slacks when they used to pay $4. Leisure time and suburban sociability have caused a sportswear explosion; 125 million pairs of slacks were...
...Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 50, and Architect Minoru Yamasaki, 41, each given a Horatio Alger Award for a noteworthy rise from "humble beginnings"; Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, 55, who successfully argued against segregated schools before the U.S. Supreme Court ten years ago, granted the N.A.A.C.P.s Liberty Bell Award; Physiologist Wallace Fenn, 70, who demonstrated loss of muscular tension with in creasing speed of contraction, and Dr. Albert Sabin, 57, who developed the oral polio vaccine, both recipients of $40,000 Antonio Feltrinelli awards presented by the Lincei National Academy, Italy's leading arts and sciences institute...