Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After hatching out his Progressive Party in Philadelphia last week, Henry Wallace headed for a hilltop in New York's Westchester County. There, on Farvue Farm, in a large white house overlooking the village of South Salem, he tended his 116 acres of farm land, cultivated his garden, and supervised the care of his 4,000 Leghorns and New Hampshire Reds...
...today, when Wallace denounces every criticism as Red-baiting, the Wallace movement is a twofold tragedy. It is the tragedy of Henry Wallace, a weak leader driven by ambition, bitterness and self-delusion into a misconception of the promised land. It is also the tragedy of the sincere people whom he is leading into a wilderness...
...engage Ibrahim's men, Indian soldiers seasoned in the steaming jungles of Burma slogged up snowy mountainsides. Bombers took their missiles over Nanga Parbat, fifth highest mountain in the world. At the extreme east end of the front, at Ladak, a strange land where the people are Buddhists and feel more affinity to Tibet than Kashmir, an Indian division was flown in by planes that climbed 20,000 feet over the Himalayas...
...parade (top lecturer: the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen). But C.U.'s most famed department is speech & drama (TIME, July 7, 1947), whose professional-looking amateur theatricals have found a backstairs to Broadway for such productions as Lute Song, The Song of Bernadette and Sing Out, Sweet Land...
...Pshaw, it's only four years. I can stand anything for four years," said Henrietta Nesbitt when she became housekeeper of the White House in 1933. But Mrs. Nesbitt, who was "pushing 60" when she became "First Housekeeper of the Land," stayed in office, like her boss, for 13 years. Unlike the memoirs of other members of President Roosevelt's entourage, her diary of those years has no political importance whatever-for the simple reason that Mrs. Nesbitt was much too busy feeding the politicians to bite off more than she could chew herself. Nonetheless, her prattling, naive...