Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the peasants of Gyor and of all Hungary would never know. The Communist Party, from its earliest days, has been wedded to conspiracy and treachery. Its quest for absolute power corrupts its members; none knows whether his comrade is a traitor. Maybe Rajk was a spy; maybe Rakosi...
Over the Side. Sleeping off the effects of shipboard merrymaking, many of the 512 passengers-more than 80% of them Americans-never heard the cries of alarm. Some who did groggily dismissed them as the noise from another of the Noronic's boisterous parties. Overwhelmed by the flash fire's speed, the skeleton crew aboard the ship (30 out of 173) fought the fire for 13 minutes before sending an alarm to the Toronto Fire Department. Said one passenger later: "They might have been trying to put out hell with their fountain pens...
Most of them took dismissal philosophically. One who rebelled was Dr. Florencio Loza, for eight years on the federal bench of La Plata. "I have never allowed any outside influence to interfere with justice in my court," he wrote in an open letter to the Minister of Justice. "I .thought it was my duty to devote to my job my best efforts. With this record I now leave my country's judiciary...
...career that has included a run of 17 consecutive years on radio (only Amos 'n' Andy has run longer), a Broadway play and road company, a comic strip, vaudeville sketches and a television show (Mon. 9:30 p.m., CBS-TV). In all the years, the Goldbergs have never managed to climb out of their Bronx tenement at 1038 East Tremont Avenue (in real life, 1038 is a street intersection). The Goldbergs have never made Park Avenue. But their creator, plump, 50-year-old Gertrude Berg, did. She has also bought a country estate on the more than...
...longer has time for exhaustive research into the folkways of urban Jewish life ("Fortunately, Molly never has to be too accurate"). Over the years, the Goldbergs' fan letters (several thousand a month) have maintained a steady 50-50 average between Jews and non-Jews. Mrs. Berg likes to recall the time the Mother Superior of a Philadelphia convent wrote to ask for a synopsis of six weeks' programs. "She said the nuns were regular listeners but they'd given up the Goldbergs for Lent and now they were wondering what had happened...