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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First to handshake his way past the Trumans in the white & gold East Room was the dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, Brazil's Ambassador Carlos Martins, accompanied by his sculptress wife, Maria, and their handsome, 19-year-old daughter Nora. Portly Ambassador Martins bore up bravely in tight-fitting full-dress uniform of dark green, covered with gold-leaf embroidery, sword and medals. Said he: "One more pound and I have to get a new uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Two-Party System | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

This performance is the first of three chamber music concerts to be given by the club. Phyllis Church of the New England Opera Theatre will be the soloist in "Das Mariculeben" a song setting for poems of Rainer Maria Rilke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergrad Composers Aid Tuesday Concert | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...Flagship Ethiopia had crashed about 160 feet below the summit of Santa Maria dei Monti, which rises directly behind the villages of Ravello and Scala. Toll: 21 killed, four hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: In a South Wind | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Married. Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin, 38, pianist-bandleader; and Maria Teresa ("Chiquita") Paske-Smith Winn, 34, daughter of a onetime British Minister to Colombia; both for the second time; at the Manhattan home of Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman, who gave the bride away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 10, 1947 | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...still forces his critics to perform their proper function. He demands that they understand completely his process of creation before they can understand his works." Well, although Green explains in a footnote that he composed his story in seven nights, and also gives thanks to various helpers, (e.g., "Merei Maria"), this critic professes to understand neither the process of creation nor the work. The story is well-written; there are constant allusions to Joyce, Eliot and others; the stream of consciousness device is made much use of; the piece concerns two characters working out their artistic and creative problems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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