Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cover story on General Van Fleet and the current situation in Greece. The letter read, in part: "Since the whole truth about the real meaning of the struggle the Greek nation is waging has never been properly understood . . . your article was an occasion of bringing home this truth and making it known to all those who wish to learn what is really taking place in Greece...
...elder statesman who, in his 703 had labored long to reorganize sprawling U.S. Government departments, was a living expression of such old-fashioned virtues as simplicity, sanity and thrift. For his birthday, congratulatory messages from Congress, U.S. boys' clubs and European foreign offices poured in to his old home at Palo Alto, Calif., where he was to spend the day. His two sons, five (of his six) grandchildren and 10,000 friends joined to welcome him back to Stanford University, where he had graduated with the university's first full-fledged class...
Italian friends said that he was more skittish than ever about marriage. The town gawked at the idea that she was chucking the movies, then brushed it skeptically aside. Next day, in an interview in Rome with the New York Post Home News's Earl Wilson, Actress Bergman backtracked a little, but left it plain that she was fed up with the life of a movie star...
...Home of the Brave. A combat case history that slugs hard at anti-Negro prejudice (TIME...
Strindberg's fears and passions eventually found relief of sorts in the old, familiar sound of the church bells. He came to believe that each of his ordeals was merely a penance on his own road to Damascus. He went home, and became the Grand Old Man of Swedish letters. While he was dying of cancer of the stomach, he wanted to have his children near him. One evening, while his daughter Karin was at his bedside, he picked up the Bible and murmured: "Everything is atoned for." Soon afterwards, he died...