Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poznan headquarters I was turned over to a character right out of Gogol-a middleaged, dark-bearded gentleman in the uniform of a Polish major, nine medals (not ribbons, medals) on his chest. His name was Vinokurov-a distinctly Russian name, but he agreed to speak Russian to me only when it became clear that conversation in Polish was quite impossible. The Major was scrupulously polite. I showed him my passport, Russian zonal permit, car registration, driver's license, etc. All were in order, but the Major went on to other questions: How was it that I spoke Russian...
...published Who's Who in America. Among 8,918 other newcomers to the 1946-47 edition: Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Chiang Kaishek, Charles de Gaulle. Longest entry: International Business Machines Corp. President Thomas J. Watson's 155 lines, an alltime record. Baby of the book: nine-year-old Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien. Missing: many generals and admirals, who had had two editions (1942-45) of glory...
...nine days the S.S. Akbel had followed its secret, zigzag route. To reach port, the battered little steamer had to duck patrolling British warships, steer clear of British radar stations ashore, elude R.A.F. planes on 24-hour alert. Last week the Akbel made harbor in Haifa, Palestine. Among 1,100 "illegal" Jews who stepped onto the Promised Land, all but one were refugees...
Died. Horace Pippin, 57, exporter, self-taught, a top U.S. Negro painter, whose works hang in nine major museums, many a private collection; of a stroke; in West Chester, Pa. Because a bullet wound paralyzed his right arm in World War I, Pippin had to paint his quaint, rugged primitives by supporting his right hand with his left, did it well enough to be compared favorably with famed primitive painters Douanier Rousseau and John Kane...
...married Australian-born Thelma Besant, a great-great niece of Theosophist Annie Besant. They have one son, Christopher Merlin Vyvyan, born in 1945. Says Vyvyan Holland (the Holland surname was adopted by Constance Wilde, under strong pressure from her family, after Oscar's conviction): "I was only nine in 1895, and was not even told of my father's difficulties until I was 20. Everything happened so long ago that I am beginning to wonder if there really has ever been such a person as Oscar Wilde...