Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Godesberg, just down the trolley line from Bonn. The host was Christian Democrat Leader (and Bonn Delegate) Andreas Hermes, who later stated his views: "We Germans have been maneuvered apart . . . We can no longer watch silently and passively developments that would lead to further splitting of Germany." The guest of honor was 76-year-old, grey-haired former (1933-34) German ambassador to Moscow, Rudolf Nadolny, otherwise (and accurately) known as Germany's "Pink eminence...
...then more famous for its blatant baseball than its Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, Brooklyn tried a professional orchestra once more. Asked to guest-conduct, famed Sir Thomas Beecham accepted with a crusty warning: "I am not prepared to transform your community overnight into a center of art and enlightenment . . ." In World War II, so many players were drafted that the orchestra collapsed again...
...Army investigators were sure. The entire Seoul detective force was assigned to dig into the Red underground for the criminals. The most favored theories: that it was revenge for the recent expulsion of suspected Communists from Chosen Christian College; that the Communists had mistaken Mrs. Underwood for her guest of honor, a Korean woman noted for her pro-United Nations activities. One high U.S. official thought he had the answer: "If the Communists are looking for a way to make Americans distrust and dislike Koreans, they could find no better one than to kill this good American woman...
...calypso singers and the throbbing steel bands, and found everything up-to-date: the airport was an awkward 17 miles from Port of Spain. At musty Belem, they were met by the weird sounds & sights of the jungle and, in the air-conditioned bar of Pan Am's guest house, by a more startling sight-the statue of a single-breasted Amazon...
Roughneck Start. What the guests saw were 18 floors decorated in an eclectic style advertised as "the best of all periods." There were seven acres of grounds, a huge fan-shaped swimming pool, 500 paintings in the guest rooms, employees in 25 different uniforms, and three penthouse apartments that would rent furnished for $2,100 a month apiece (the rooms below began at $6 a night...