Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tense and complete story. It shows what the wartime newsreel could only guess at: the beaming old ladies hugging Nazi submarine crews as the U-Boat men parade through Berlin; the Japanese pilot bowing to a Shinto Shrine as his carrier heels around into the wind northwest of Pearl Harbor; the American sailors laid out on their stretchers amid the trim officers' cars in that Harbor's parking...
Diplomat Kennan had talked to reporters in Berlin three weeks before and had made a statement: the life of a U.S. diplomat in Soviet Russia is little better than existence was in Nazi Germany, where he had been briefly interned after Pearl Harbor. This line of talk, said a note from Moscow to the State Department, was "a rude violation of generally recognized norms of international...
...bitter balladry of 18th century Portuguese convicts on their way to forced labor and exile in Portugal's African colonies. Amalia's fado is more sentimental. It differs, too, from the singing of other Portuguese fadistas, just as Bessie Smith's blues differ from Pearl Bailey's. Amalia, who is steeped in her country's Moorish musical tradition, alternates a passionate, reedy wail with a tone of warm caress. She thinks that Rosemary Clooney's current song, Half as Much, is the closest thing to U.S. fado...
...Denmark, with Queen Ingrid, the Princesses Anne-Marie, 6, Benedikte, 8, and Margrethe, 12, posed for a family portrait wearing souvenir gifts from their recent visit to Greenland. The King wore a white Anorak, a soft cotton turtleneck shirt; the Queen and her daughters modeled Kamikker boots and pearl-embroidered sealskin dresses...
...Fort Worth lumberman, D. E. Chipps, got off scot-free when he called it "self-defense." Constantly at odds with the Southern Baptists, he organized some 3,000 churches into his own Fundamentalist fellowship, urged his followers to "use the broad axe of John the Baptist, not a little pearl-handled knife, on worldly card playing, dancing, and hell raising...