Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the bombs came down on Berlin last week (see p.30), one casualty was Professor Albert Speer's big Ministry for Armaments and Munitions in Pariserplatz. A Swedish correspondent reported that suave, slick-haired Albert Speer rose to the occasion, gathered his staff around him and declaimed: "Gentlemen, we...
It was the 50th anniversary of Eddie Cantor's alma mater-the Educational Alliance, world's largest community center, on Manhattan's fabled East Side. To celebrate the occasion, Cantor recalled an appearance at the Alliance in 1900:
On another occasion, the General was asked to loan his personal Catalina flying boat to help PT boats flush a covey of Jap ships. Geiger first refused ("Got it filled full of holes the last time you fellows flew around out there"), finally gave in. But there was a string...
In October of 1870 the Reverend Phillips Brooks laid the cornerstone of this most ambitious building ever attempted by the University. It was to be an immense Victorian Gothic pile, erected as memorial to "those who fought and died to preserve the Union." "The Delta," a triangular shaped piece of...
He is not. He is a big (220 lb.), friendly, sentimental, high-living, poker-playing ex-sportswriter (New York Evening World, World-Telegram) who has maneuvered his highly flavored personality into the role of an unofficial U.S. ambassador-at-large. A hearty haunter of nightspots, lacking a sharp critical sense...