Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Jimmie Byrnes told his press conference that the disputed Turkish territory had been mentioned at Potsdam. There are no waterways anywhere near Kars or Ardahan, but these mountain districts had somehow found their way into a discussion of European waterways. Whether Russia had wanted them back or not, Secretary Byrnes couldn't say for sure. Neither could he remember whether Truman, Attlee or Stalin had happened to be around at the time. That would be nice recollecting, implied Jimmie, but he wasn't that good...
...local rajahs sent him gifts of beef and pork. Unmolested by the Japs, Meier painted 150 canvases. On the side he grew tobacco, which one of his wives rolled into miniature cigars. He also made rice wine and a fiery plum cordial he called "swisky-the drink of Swiss mountain sailors...
Szigeti and Bartók spent some time together at Davos, Switzerland (the locale of The Magic Mountain) in 1928, while Bartók was treated for consumption and Szigeti recuperated from pneumonia. Szigeti remembers him as a slight, frail man with the burning blue eyes of a zealot, whose hair had turned white at 22. They later played in concerts together all over Europe. Said Szigeti: "He was an anachronism . . . who should have lived in the times of Haydn and Beethoven. He couldn't fit into big business...
...stories, stop "jumping" stories from Page One. He quickly won the women. First he abolished the old rule against women smoking in the city room. Then he ordered women's lounges installed at once. He gave backshop employes a $3-a-week raise; the rival Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News, caught flatfooted, had to follow suit. Last week Hoyt sent a legman legging it on a 13-state assignment to retrieve its famed regional coverage...
...even airmen admit, the greatest hazard to safe, speedy flying is the weather-beaten air. Item: fortnight ago the pilot of a fogbound American Airlines flagship piled into a California mountain peak, killing all 27 people aboard-the worst commercial air disaster on record. This accident would perhaps never have happened had all the war-born safety devices been in general...