Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean general named Kang Moon Bang had an unexpected guest last week during a briefing session at ROK army HQ in Taegu: the top U.S. soldier in Korea, General Maxwell Taylor. As Kang Moon Bang talked on, a window at one side of the room slid open, and another unexpected guest popped into the room...
...Although he owned only one of his father's works, a pencil sketch of his mother, Emile Gauguin staunchly defended his father's reputation, in 1941 threatened to sue United Artists if they used any Gauguin art in the movie version of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence, claiming that it would identify the disreputable hero with his father (see BOOKS...
Every reader of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence knows who Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin was: the middle-aged Paris stockbroker who callously turned his back on business and family, fled to Tahiti and became a great painter amid the palm trees and dusky native maids. Devoted Gauguinists have damned the Maugham novel (in which the thinly disguised Gauguin is actually an Englishman named Charles Strickland) as six-pennyworth of moonshine. But they have never managed to scotch it. They never will, because the tale is essentially true...
...invasion of Costa Rica began in a matter of hours after President Jose Figueres had called upon the Organization of American States for help. Under a waning moon, a band of armed Costa Rican exiles landed before dawn from two planes at Villa Quesada (pop. 3,500), 40 miles from the Nicaraguan border. About the same time several hundred invaders, afoot or in small boats, moved into the cattle land on the Nicaraguan border near La Cruz. It was a daring challenge to the O.A.S., recognized peacekeeper of the Americas. But early this week, O.A.S. was resolutely measuring...
Born. To Dawn Addams. 24, undulous British-born cinemactress (The Moon Is Blue), and Prince Vittorio Emanuele Massimo of Roccasecca de' Volsci, 43, Italian gentleman-farmer: their first child, a son. Weight...