Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four Falls, N.B., when his car ran off the road, crashed through three posts and plunged down an embankment, Fred Murray escaped injury; when he went to telephone for help, he fell into a newly dug cellar and broke...
...theme, instead of individual expression. "Perhaps," he says, "Mexico will point Europe back to the forgotten way." In Colorado, Charlot has put his own students to work on a gigantic fresco of the fall of Jericho, to "keep them, out of mischief for months at a time, and help them understand that teamwork is important and that originality is not all-important...
Vaughn Williams: Concerto for Oboe and Strings (Mitchell Miller, oboist, with the Saidenberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Mercury, 5 sides). England's Ralph Vaughn Williams composed this well-made, sweetly pastoral music during World War II. Vaughn Williams (with the expert help of Soloist Miller) makes even five sides of oboe pleasant to take. Performance: good. Recording: good...
Died. General Feng Yu-hsiang, 67, China's gargantuan (6 ft. 4 in., 270 lbs.) "Christian General," as he was sailing back to China "to help overthrow" Chiang Kaishek; in a fire aboard the Russian motorship Pobeda, in the Black Sea. An up-from-the-ranks peasant soldier, Feng participated in Dr. Sun Yat-sen's 1911 coup against the Manchus, reputedly baptized his troops with a garden hose after he became a Methodist in 1913. His quick-change loyalties led him to support and then betray Chiang at least four times...
...Morison's naval history of the war, and the first of eight on the war against Japan. Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer of Columbus and professor of history at Harvard, Morison got his big job from his friend Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 and has had all the Navy's help in carrying it out. He uses official facts (including Japanese naval records) and his own judgment...