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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium, peasants whose barns were dangerously bare of fodder because of last summer's drought gratefully set their cattle to pasture in fields that had stayed green all winter long. Dutch bargemen poled happily along canals that were free of January ice for the first time since 1900. With the canals absorbing some 60% of the country's freight traffic, hard-pressed Dutch railroads were breathing easy. In Italy, where the fragrant mimosa had flowered in December, thanks to the mildest winter of the century, cattle and sheep were grazing hoof-deep in verdant pastureland while farmers sent...
...Princess de Rethy, his begoggled son, Prince Baudouin, and 40 pieces of baggage. Cuba's Major General Genovevo Perez Damera and a battery of cameramen gave the party a royal welcome (see cut). The Hotel Nacional apologetically provided the best in the house-a mere presidential suite, but free. Cuban Sugaristocrat José Goméz Meña threw a great big garden party. After two weeks of "recreation and study" (the Princess raised some eyebrows by recreating in slacks), the-royal family planned to steam off to the U.S., then back to Europe...
...need a shot in the arm to handle some of the rounds, which sound like sea chanties and are as complex as a Bach fugue. Singers found themselves singing one duet written in different keys. There were none of the arias that most Italian operas hand out like a free lunch-but the audience would find at least a few things...
Last week, Chesterfield was busily buying up other advertisers' contracts and erasing all the billboard ads at New York's Polo Grounds. The company would sponsor all telecasts of the Giants' home games next summer (over WNBT), and wanted no free riders (last year the Gem Blades billboard in Yankee Stadium stole Gillette's show). This summer, Chesterfield will make sure that the Polo Grounds is adorned with a big Chesterfield ad, deep in center field...
Insistence that pure science must remain free from control by "practical" considerations was voiced by J. Robert' Oppenheimer '26, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, as he, President Conant, and Vannevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, addressed a Harvard Club of Boston hanquet last night celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Lawrence Scientific School...