Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Japan surrendered, Lyuh organized the left-of-center People's Party. Last year fellow Koreans of varying political stripes tried nine times to kill him. The extreme rightists hated the quiet, silver-haired teacher because he helped create a left popular front movement. The Communists wanted him out of the way because he fought their attempts to infiltrate his party...
...weeping Burmans stood in the rain awaiting their turns to file past the embalmed bodies of U Aung San and his Buddhist fellow victims (which will lie in state a month before burial). Burma now had a martyr and a legend. The Bogyok's A.F.P.F.L. party was more popular than ever, but its leadership had been almost obliterated. British Governor Sir Hubert Elvin Rance (who gets assassination threats almost every day) announced to Burmans: "I am glad to inform you that . . . Thakin Nu [the murdered leader's right-hand man] has agreed to form a new council...
...Spain's No. 1 matador (TIME, July 21), at a benefit performance. His horn bit three inches into Manolete's calf, "destroying a muscle," the doctors said. But the great man stayed right in there until he had dispatched the beast, whose ears, as a token of popular esteem, were presented to him in the infirmary...
Humphrey built up a cult of admirers, but Weidman kept wondering "if the audience really understands this business." When Doris quit dancing two years ago, he decided to do a dance "as understandable and popular as the movies." His choice: Thurber's Fables for Our Time...
...Elda replaced Ina Claire in the road company of The Quaker Girl. The show closed in Buffalo, and as Elda stepped off the milk train in Manhattan, DeWolf Hopper, having just divorced his fourth wife, was waiting on the platform to marry her. From that sensationally popular musical comedy star, Elda acquired a dressing-room knowledge of practically everybody on the stage. She also acquired a son, William DeWolf Jr., and a new first, as well as a new last name. For in their honeymoon days...