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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marianthi's first talk with Papouas was interrupted by an enemy air raid. Side by side they dropped behind a boulder for shelter. It was love...
Last week the people of Venice noted the 100th anniversary of what they believed to be the first air raid in the history of war. Unlike the people of Hiroshima in 1945, the Venetians of 1849 had plenty of warning that something bizarre was coming off. The Austrians, who perpetrated the deed, allowed rumors of a "secret weapon" to reach Venice in advance, and one Venetian artist drew a picture of what he thought would happen (see cut) and peddled it in the streets...
Early one morning, Chiang Kai-shek's Douglas Skymaster eased down onto the runway of Canton's Milky Way airport. The Gimo, wearing a jungle-green uniform, stepped out waving his sun helmet. It was his first visit to Canton since 1936. A waiting group of Kuomintang officials heard again his familiar "Hao, hao" (good, good). Chiang's bull-necked son, Chiang Ching-kuo, hustled his father into a waiting 1948 DeSoto, and the pair sped off to visit Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan. Li and Yen, who had not been informed...
Heavily muffled passengers in Santiago's trim blue-green tramcars kept their distance last week, averted their faces when a fellow rider coughed. Movies played to half-empty houses night after night. As the year's first snowfall melted on Santiago's streets, Chileans shivered in one of the worst grippe epidemics in their country's history...
Opera Singer Kirsten Flagstad had to take vinegar with her tea. Manhattan's Metropolitan, which had snubbed her as a suspected Nazi sympathizer during her first postwar visits to the U.S. in 1947-48, came up with an offer for next season (she turned it down because of previous concert bookings). Meanwhile, in San Francisco, trustees of the War Memorial Opera House canceled her four performances scheduled for this fall, "because of the controversial character of her public appearances elsewhere in the United States...