Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth winter of war, the London stage is still up to scratch, if to nothing much livelier. Thirty-seven theaters are open, offering everything from ballet to burlesque. Business generally started out bravely in 1943, but crawled into bed toward the end because of the flu epidemic. Now it malingers because of people's concern for the second front. Nothing new and exciting this season bears a made-in-Britain label, but London has done pretty well for itself with goods from overseas and old finery out of trunks...
...Cassino nestles at the base of holy, historic Mount Cassino. There, Byzantine conqueror Belisarius paused on his way to Rome in 536; the Benedictine Order was founded in 529.* Forbiddingly fortified by the Germans, Cassino now straddles the road to Rome chosen by General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army. Last week, yard by yard, French, U.S. and Canadian troops advanced toward the ancient, strategic town...
Dean Garrison was elected at a meeting of the Directors of the Alumni Association held at the Boston Harvard Club. As is the usual custom, he is a member of the class which this year celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary...
Through low, sleet-laden clouds, Invader (A36) attack-bombers dived on Nazi pillboxes. The Fifth's indefatigable artillery gouged the terrain. Alpine-trained U.S., and Canadian troops climbed snowy slopes where German guns lorded it over the valley floor and Highway 6, the old Via Casillina route to Rome. But the hardest assignment fell to the muddy, regular U.S. infantry...
Married. Pfc. Derick Vanderbilt Webb, 30, fifth-generation descendant of famed dynast Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Elizabeth Bigelow Canfield, 19, young est child of the late socialite Manhattan lawyer George Folger Canfield; in Manhattan...