Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening last October Yvette went to a cocktail party near Frankfurt with her husband, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Andrew Madsen. They drank bourbon-and-Coke, played "Pass the Kleenex,"*and Yvette twitted her Georgia-born host, another U.S. officer, on his Dixie drawl. "O.K.," responded the airman good-naturedly, "how do you say it in Brook-lynese?" Sensitive Yvette slapped the joker full in the face and demanded that her husband take her home immediately. Andy Madsen, a Californian, was too busy laughing to pay much attention. He tossed her the keys to the family car, and Yvette stormed...
...Dutch commando force in the East Indies. He was kicked out of the Dutch army in 1948, began to recruit his own private army to fight against the new Indonesian Republic. His 10,000 troops, mostly Moslem extremists and deserters from the Dutch army, call themselves "The Heavenly Host." Recently, Westerling sent 600 of his men on a raid of West Java's Bandung (TIME, Feb. 6); he boasted that he would conquer all of Indonesia. But last week, Westerling's military future looked...
...Singapore, Police Chief Alastair McEwan had been tipped off that Westerling would turn up "very soon" to buy arms and sign up recruits for the Heavenly Host. McEwan arrested the swashbuckling outlaw for entering the British Crown colony illegally. Singapore police carelessly put him into a prison cell with an Indonesian student named Haris Porkas. Half an hour later, Porkas was carried out with a broken jaw. Westerling said that Porkas had provoked the fight. When Westerling offered his hand, Porkas spat...
Three Southern women's schools will play host to 46 members of the Orchestra on the seven day jaunt which was a prewar tradition. The musicians will leave April 1, spend a night apiece in New York and Washington, and then proceed to Langwood College in Farmville, Virginia, for their first concert...
...host schools will display their Southern hospitality by entertaining the musicians at dances and other social events...