Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The class of 1929 was one of the most distinguished ever to graduate from the old Army Air Corps flying school at Kelly Field, Texas. Stirred by Charles Lindbergh's historic flight to Paris in 1927, many promising young men flocked to Kelly to win their wings. Among the...
Key to Success. In Paris, after winning a special commendation from the police chief for his speed in locating stolen cars, a gendarme let out the secret: he had stolen them himself.
Mesmeric Effect. Singer Montand was born Yvo Livi, the son of an Italian broommaker. Fleeing Mussolini's Blackshirts, the family settled in the harbor district of Marseille, where Yves quit school to become successively a waiter, bartender, factory worker and hairdresser. His evenings he spent at the movies watching...
Married. Kristin Norstad, 21, only daughter of NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad; and Nicholas Wesson Craw, 22, student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and son of Medal-of-Honor-winning Army Air Corps Colonel Demas Craw, who was machine-gunned by Vichy troops on a truce mission...
When fame strikes a writer late, reprints of his earlier works sometimes become exciting discoveries. This is what Boris Pasternak's publishers hope for with his slim, 1934 story The Last Summer (see below); similarly, Vladimir Nabokov's literary handlers hope that The Real Life of Sebastian Knight...