Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage set that might have come out of a studio in midtown Manhattan. Iowa's prizewinner (in the '30s Grant Wood once won three firsts in a row) was a somber doorway that could have opened into a house on almost any Main Street in the land. California's winners, hung in a monster open-air cabana over beds of dazzling yellow marigolds, were low-keyed oil portraits with little sunshine in them. California cautiously separated the conservative sheep from the modern goats, awarded two sets of prizes. First prize (conservative) went to 31-year-old Chet...
Officials and the rich are not Giuliano's only prey; he also dislikes Communists. His gang has bombed C.P. headquarters in several towns. In 1947 he and his men attacked a May Day celebration on the Pian della Ginestra, killed eight and wounded 33. His argument against land reform is: "If it comes about, I will have to capture hundreds of peasants when I need money. Now all I need to do is capture a single baron and get all I want...
Last week, four years after VJ, the U.S. could well ask: "Isn't this where we came in?" From Red reports, it looked more & more as though the rich, strategic land of Manchuria had become another Russian satellite...
This week a medical magazine of a different kind was on its way to national circulation. The National Cancer Institute had granted $19,600 to help the Texas Cancer Bulletin, just renamed Cancer Bulletin, to reach out to every doctor in the land. When he picks up this gaudy piece of jazzy journalism, the most exhausted country doctor can hardly fall asleep. In fact, he may be so upset that he will need a sedative...
...beat, bop-beat ("You don't hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land...