Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ESCAPE IN PASSION (589 pp.)-Jules Romains (Translafed by Gerard Hopkins)-Knopf...
...Marseilles, Gerard Vamuchin was growing up like a little animal. He had never known his father, and the Germans had deported his mother. When people talked to him, he backed away in terror. Like thousands of Europe's children, he was homeless...
That was last spring; now eleven-year-old Gerard has found a home-in Trogen, Switzerland. His face is freshly scrubbed, his pipestem legs are filling out on milk, fresh vegetables and meat. Gerard is one of the lucky first 29 citizens of Pestalozzi Children's Village.* By next year, the village will house 380 orphans from foreign countries...
Richard H. Gerard (real name: Richard G. Husch), virtually unknown author of Sweet Adeline's lyrics, retired in Manhattan at 70-to "knock off a few hits." The job he retired from: foreman of the application file bureau of the money order division at the General Post Office...
Since mid-May, 1,000 G.I.s and Germans a day have thronged through an A.M.G.-sponsored art show in Wiesbaden. In paintings gathered from bombed-out German museums (notably Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich), they saw the work of such Flemish masters as Van Eyck, Gerard David and Van der Goes, such Germans as Dürer, Grünewald and Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe...