Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other expatriate Manhattan intellectuals along wooded South Mountain Road felt equally bitter, if not so poetic. Among them: Artist Henry Varnum Poor, Cartoonist Milton Caniff (Terry & the Pirates), Composer Kurt Weill (Lady in the Dark). So did Helen Hayes, who lives down the river a way. So did several hundred less glamorous citizens-Italian and Polish truck gardeners behind the Hudson Highlands, and rock-ribbed Republicans who peacefully dairy-farm and grow cauliflower in the blue Catskill hills. Each did something about it in his own way: Playwright Anderson used his $180 from the New Yorker as a campaign contribution...
...wrote Playwright Maxwell Anderson last May, in a bitter poetic outburst for which the New Yorker paid him $180. What had moved Maxwell Anderson to sad song was a piece of gerrymandering. By redistricting, Anderson's South Mountain Road home in the Hudson River valley had suddenly become a part of Congressman Ham Fish's constituency...
...Gateway. The other airfields stretch from Edmonton to the Alaskan boundary. They are likely to be in heavy use in the postwar air age. Over them in the last two years nearly 5,000 Lend-Lease planes have been ferried to the Soviet Union. The route passes over rugged mountain country where the temperature in winter sometimes drops to 70 below. But the airway is relatively free of the fogs and rain that blanket the Pacific Coast from Puget Sound to the Aleutians. And it is the shortest practical route to Siberia and the coast of Asia...
...record of leathery Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell. His weary Chinese troops wrenched the last stubborn defender from the railhead village of Myitkyina. Thus fell the last Japanese stronghold in north Burma. Now Stilwell had only to hold off the Japs and bulldoze through 70 miles of jungle and mountain to complete his project for 1944-to reopen a road from India supply bases to China...
...mess. In the ensuing friendly shop talk, he reveals that a head cold is the reason his mission commander has been dropped from the projected flight. Colds are serious to flyers only when they don oxygen masks. The only prime German target separated from Naples by oxygen-mask mountain altitudes is Munich. When U.S. bombers head for Munich's Hermann Goring oil works, Messerschmitts are waiting for them...