Word: port
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event which Hamburg's people simply call "the catastrophe"-the week of concentrated Allied bombing, in the summer of 1943, which left the city with nearly as many dead as were killed in Britain by bombs and rockets during the entire war. Hamburg's great port is virtually paralyzed and many of Hamburg's sea captains have become trolley car conductors. Nearly 30,000 seamen drift from one odd job to another. Even the tough waterfront has lost its rowdy vitality. In the dark alleys, these nights, the stillness is broken now & then by the shuffling gait...
Trippers who island-hopped through the turquoise Caribbean were met at San Juan by a waiter with trays of Daiquiris. At Trinidad, they heard the calypso singers and the throbbing steel bands, and found everything up-to-date: the airport was an awkward 17 miles from Port of Spain. At musty Belem, they were met by the weird sounds & sights of the jungle and, in the air-conditioned bar of Pan Am's guest house, by a more startling sight-the statue of a single-breasted Amazon...
Betty Heaton '51, of 20 Walker street and Wellesley, will act as Radcliffe NSA delegate for 1949. In this position Miss Heaton automatically becomes second-vice-president of Student Government. Also elected on the NSA slate was Jean McCormick '51, of Eliot Hall and West-port, Connecticut, who will take over the position of alternate...
Shoemaker's Child. In Port Arthur, Ont., Paul Gibbon, whose job is issuing radio licenses, was fined $5 and costs for not having...
...scholar who wanders into the hills and is murdered by partisans. Since the British government has no official knowledge og Scott-King's presence in the country, his is compelled to leave by the underground disguised as a nun, and is at length deposited at a small Mediterranean port among various royalists, anarchists, Pétainists, terrorists, ex-Gestapo men, Italian airmen, Turkish prostitutes, Hungarian ballet dancers and Portuguese Trotskyites. He winds up eventually at a Jewish Illicit Immigrants' camp in Palestine where one of his former students recognizes him and establishes his identity...