Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the second successive year, the U.S. played host while only foreign military teams won glory in the arena. Since the 1948 Olympic Games, the U.S. Army has given up training an equestrian team. For brilliant competitive horsemanship the audience had to look to teams from countries where the military...
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Blitzstein is also a clever musical impersonator: at home in a great variety of styles, he turns out spirited polkas, convincing Negro jazz, grandiose arias, lilting quartets. Moreover, in Regina the music constitutes the actual train ride, not just (as in musicomedy) the stops along the line.
The Sleeper. Most Americans think of malaria as a tropical disease, says Leon J. Warshaw in Malaria: the Biography of a Killer, published this week (Rinehart; $3.75). Actually, says Dr. Warshaw, the disease has struck from the Arctic to Patagonia. Once known as "the shakes," it was rife a century...
All in all, Brokenshire earns about $100,000 a year. He has a house in Manhattan, a country place on Long Island, and is buying "all the insurance and annuities I can find." Says he: "The money means something to a man who's been through two bankruptcies. But...