Word: observerer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The twin-engined Beechcraft rolling down the runway at Churchill under a lowering, leaden sky carried four assigned passengers and one hitchhiker. Captain Benjamin Scott Custer, onetime director of air safety in the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, now attache in Ottawa, was returning from a cruise with...
A few minutes later, in Jerusalem's Katamon quarter (formerly an Arab residential district, now held by Israeli forces), the Count's cream-colored Chrysler was stopped at a roadblock. From a jeep stepped two men in Israeli army uniforms, carrying Sten guns. While U.S. Colonel Frank Begley...
Said the Daily Telegraph: "The familiar tunes [as] handled by Britten . . . may be hated by traditionalists . . . But what may seem like impudence is really the artistic assurance of a musical creator who knows exactly what he wants and how to get it with disarming brilliance . . . There is hardly a fault...
Are kings worth what they cost? Pastrycook Alfred Bell, 48, thinks so. Last week Alfred stood looking through the grubby show window of an empty little shop in the main road of Bedhampton, a Hampshire village. He smiled broadly as he pictured the cookies and cakes and pies he would...
After kneeling together before a 300-year-old altar in San José, the Presidents got off some conventional remarks, then flew to Corumba, where they swapped compliments and gifts. One sharp-eyed observer noted that Hertzog's gift to Dutra, a medallion engraved with the likenesses of the...