Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart a quarry of monstrous guilt. A half-century ago, on a vacation, he crossed Lake Constance, and remembers that the Swiss shore seemed like a part of the great world, as his home was not. There was a taint (he thinks now) in that feeling; and in Lübeck, his home, more than a taint...
...Lübeck youth Mann (now 70) recalls a Germany which, while pretending to universalism, actually lived in "arrogant provincialism . . . the modern nationalistic form, of the old German world-seclusiveness and melancholy world-unfitness . . . cosmopolitanism in a nightcap...
...Field Marshal Sir Harold Rupert L. G. Alexander, 54, another Ulsterman. His next assignment: Governor-General of Canada...
...Chicago's Federal Court a month ago, Judge Michael L. Igoe handed down an apparently routine decision: he approved the reorganization of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co., on the rocks since 1925. But it was not routine to 1,175 holders of the road's preferred stock...
American's order put Convair almost abreast of Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin Co., which so far has orders for 105 of its Model 202s. Convair turned the trick by offering its faster plane (300 miles an hour v. 270 for Martin's 202) to American for $180,000 each...