Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer home at Campobello Island, N.B., for 30 college boys and girls who will use the place for six weeks this summer to study discussion-group-leading. They are sponsored by the safe & sound International Student Service, to which she has transferred the affections once lavished on the deep pink American Youth Congress. << Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, riled by rumors of a race-equality move in State education, settled down to weeding out non-Georgian teachers, declared: "I never did think these foreign professors were smarter than our own Georgians." << King Peter II of Yugoslavia, 17, reached London safely...
Last week Venetians had a chance to forget for an hour or so the scarcity of tourists, the scariness of the war, watching a little parade file into the pink splendor of the Doges' Palace. Occasion: the signing up of the ninth member of the Axis team, the rookie puppet State of Croatia...
Spawning snow and pink roses against...
Perhaps because of this fact, ultra-respectable King George last week sent a telegram of congratulation and commendation to N.o.W.'s roly-poly, pink-cheeked, 74-year-old editor, Sir Emsley Carr, a shrewd, kindly, self-made Yorkshireman (knighted in 1918 for his war philanthropies). The occasion was Sir Emsley's 50th anniversary as News of the World editor...
Since the late Andrew Mellon's new National Gallery of Art opened its bronze doors on Washington's Constitution Mall (TIME, March 24), many a critical connoisseur has looked Philanthropist Mellon's gigantic gift straight in the pink marble mouth. Architects have grumbled that the National Gallery is as massively old-fashioned as Grant's Tomb. Artists complained that the gallery ought to have made some provision for accepting contemporary art. Connoisseurs sniffed that its collection is sadly deficient in French...