Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Mann, grey eminence of expatriate belles lettres, set an old pot aboil-ing again when he returned to his native Germany. After receiving the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize, he planned to go to Weimar, in the Russian zone, to accept a similar honor. "We who fought Naziism on German soil for twelve years," huffed the Mainz Allgemeine Zeitung, "think that those who invited Thomas Mann to a public festival in Frankfurt were badly advised...
Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia first-baseman, left Chicago's Billings Hospital to go back to the Quaker City with noi trace of bitterness toward Bobby-Soxer Ruth Steinhagen, who, in an excess of girlish adoration, put a .22-caliber slug through his right lung last June 14. "I only saw her once after she shot me," said Eddie, "that was in a Chicago court where they sent her to the booby-hatch. It's just an unfortunate thing...
Fear, like pain (see below), has its good points. Fear sends the patient scurrying to the doctor to find out what, if anything, is wrong with him. But fear of cancer, especially among women, may go...
...World War I loan from the U.S., Finland had never missed a remittance day. She had paid the U.S. Government more than $8,000,000 (chiefly in interest) on the original $8,281,926.17 relief loan. After World War II she began paying again, still has $13 million to go. "These remarkable people," declared New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith last winter, "appear determined in a world of forgotten principles to make their country an example of integrity...
...record-buying public, this schizoid spectacle has been confusing, to say the least. Why go on buying the old 78s, when 45s or 33-⅓s are obviously the coming thing? But which of the two new types to buy? Columbia's Long Playing 33⅓, s whose microgrooves can hold a whole symphony on two sides, have an advantage in convenience over Victor's small 453 for long classical selections. Also, Columbia's seven-inchers are quite as good for popular music as RCA's seven-inchers, though there are as yet few automatic record...