Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported that "Fifth Avenue was as white and vacant as the frozen Yukon...
...train chuffed into the station at Davos, Switzerland, a battered jeep bearing the markings of the U.S. Fifth Army stood waiting. A news photographer, assigned to cover a royal reunion, wasted no glances on the strapping youngster in U.S. Army flying jacket who sat at the wheel. But when the big train braked to a stop and the pretty girl in the fur coat stepped off, she had eyes only for the jeep driver. "Hello, Michael darling," she trilled in English, running to him and planting an enthusiastic kiss on his cheek. "Hello, Anne," he stammered in blushing answer...
...West Palm Beach, Fla., Nancy Rheem Talbot filed suit for separation from Playboy Husband Johnny. After a night out with Lana Turner, she charged, he had told her: "Go home to your mother." In Manhattan, Cinemactress Arline Judge, whose fifth husband, Bob Topping, succeeded Talbot as Lana's friend, wasn't holding still for a divorce. "It'll take me a long time to ruin this one," she raged to the New York Post's Earl Wilson, "but. . . I swear on my baby's head, I'll ruin him for what...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 (the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). Robert Schumann called the Fourth "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants" (the Eroica and the Fifth). In his Columbia debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, Conductor Szell has sculptured her skillfully and gracefully. Performance: excellent...
...houses and great, ugly, expensive hotels. Villagers, doing their day's marketing, dodged visiting skiers in the streets. Crowded little St. Moritz (pop. 2,500) had set up 4,000 extra beds, which would not be nearly enough. For St. Moritz this week is the scene of the fifth winter Olympics, the first since...