Word: marche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled into Helmstedt, in the British zone, the city's brass band played a booming march of welcome. The townspeople waved and cheered. Over a loudspeaker came the voice of the stationmaster: "We heartily welcome the passengers on this first train out of Berlin. We want you to know how good we feel to be able to reunite our ties with all of you. May your journey be a pleasant...
...Mediterranean base for communism. The obedient satellites on Greece's north provided arms and other material aid, sanctuary for hard-pressed guerrillas, hospitals, training bases. Whether they fought voluntarily or under duress, the guerrilla soldiers were Greeks. For Russia it was a cheap try for big stakes. In March 1946, the guerrillas had only 2,500 soldiers. Two years later they had upwards...
They had plenty to dig. French Jazzman Hugues Panassié had been applauded for bringing Louis Armstrong to blow at his Nice festival last year (TIME, March 8, 1948), but criticized for leaving out U.S. boppers. For this year's International Jazz Festival, rival Jazzman Charles Delaunay was playing it safe by inviting both the bop artists and two-beat specialists from half a dozen European countries and the U.S. The French radio blared out the goings-on for ten days...
Down to the Sea in Ships. Richard Widmark and Lionel Barrymore in a reefed-in version of the old whaling yarn (TIME, March...
...March of Science. In Geelong, Australia, Chemist Edgar Noble announced that he had succeeded, after four years of experimentation, in impregnating men's suits with typical scents of the Australian bush...