Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, when the Carnegie Corp. decided to get some use out of the Georgian mansion and the 29-room house next door, it wasted no time looking for a Croesus who could afford to keep them open. After all, the places were assessed for $2,100,000, and taxes were $62,000 a year. Instead, the corporation turned over both mansions, on a 21-year rent-free lease, to the New York School of Social Work of Columbia University. The big kitchen would be turned into a cafeteria, and the art gallery into a lecture hall...
Peiping's massive gates swung open and through them General Fu ("I will defend this city to the last!") marched 100,000 troops for "reorganization." At Peiping, Nationalists and Communists signed an agreement designed to "shorten the civil war, satisfy a public desire for peace and . . . prevent the vitality of the country from sinking any further." The agreement did not mention "surrender...
...hearing that government relief columns were on the way, the Communists prepared to leave. They picked out 700 townspeople to go with them as captives. One girl tearfully protested: "Capitanos, I am pregnant. What use can I be to you?" The guerrilla leader strolled up to her and ripped open the bodice of her dress. He laughed and said: "Not much milk for a woman who claims to be with child." To his men he said: "Take her with the others. She should know better than...
Brandy for the Dead. When government forces finally reached Naousa, they found funeral services in progress at the cemetery. The resonant chanting of priests was intermittently drowned out by the wailing of black-shawled women. Some of the dead, laid out in open clapboard coffins, had ears hacked off, eyes gouged out. In the ruined hospital, strewn among wrecked operating tables and X-ray machines, were blood-soaked and bullet-riddled mattresses-proof that the sick and wounded had been shot...
...Said Distributor Joe Burstyn, whose firm imported Paisan, Open City and other highly successful foreign films, "When I see what a few young people with good ideas can do when they take a camera and go out on the streets of New York, I wonder why the hell we go overseas to look for good pictures...