Word: marche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanks to LIFE Photographer John Phillips, TIME and LIFE had a firsthand news and picture story on Yugoslavia's beleagured-and hard to see -Marshal Tito in their Sept. 12 issues. Phillips has had the Marshal's confidence from the time he made a long, grueling march with a Yugoslav Partisan guerrilla column campaigning against the Nazis in 1944. Tito awarded him the Order of Merit. Later, when the Marshal was made "Hero of the Yugoslav People," Phillips was the only foreign guest among the 24 people at the ceremony. For his part, Phillips says he gave Tito...
...from the Philippines in 1945, Major Hans George Hornbostel was 64, his wife Gertrude was 54. World War II had treated them cruelly. Major Hornbostel, an ex-Marine officer who had been commissioned by the Army when war broke out, had fought on Bataan, had endured the infamous Death March and spent years in prison. Gertrude had spent three years as a prisoner in Manila amid the dreary terrors of Santo Tomas...
...Sino-Soviet Friendship Month." A campaign is under way to have citizens "publicize, learn from and support Soviet Russia!" Peiping recently staged a gigantic Soviet exhibition "to introduce systematically the great socialist construction of the U.S.S.R." Madame Sun's presence and her exhortation for Chinese and Russians to march ahead as "comrades-in-arms" topped the propaganda campaign. For her labors, the Red press hailed her as "the Exalted Widow...
...broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record...
...have "blessed this prickly plant which we despise or don't even recognize as it grows around us . . . He had known it by its romantic name of Ivar's Daughter, and he blessed it as useful to man and beast. Gather young nettles for yourself in March of early spring. By all means wear gloves. Serve them as fresh vegetables...