Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three ships steamed off toward Germany, a frail little man in a shabby black suit stood on Port-de-Bouc's tiny quay, looking longingly after the ships. A Polish Jew who had emigrated to Strasbourg, Josef Hochowitz had two children aboard the ships, Israel (24) and Rebecca (22). Once he had lost them to a German concentration camp, but in 1945 the family was reunited. Now he had lost them to Zionism. Two months ago, exclaiming, "We want to go to our real country," the children had left, and at Sete boarded the Exodus...
...rabbi (who had no children) had taken Josef to task: "You must know home for a Jew is Palestine. That is something to be struggled for ... to pave the way for the children of Israel." Now, as he prepared to board the Strasbourg train to tell his wife that Rebecca and Israel were not coming, Josef had his answer. From one of the steaming, sweating shipholds, they had finally sent him a message: "We will meet again in Palestine or never...
Gromyko's day usually begins at 9 a.m. and ends after midnight. At breakfast he likes to read various morning newspapers. Among his literary favorites he includes, in addition to Russian classics, Hugo. Balzac, Goethe, Shakespeare, Mark Twain. His favorite U.S. movies include Gone With the Wind, Rebecca, Abe Lincoln in Illinois. His father was a farmer. He has a brother and a sister living in Gomel. He met his wife in college, in Minsk...
Laura (by Vera Caspary & George Sklar; produced by H. Clay Blaney in association with S. P. & Roy P. Steckler), like Rebecca, flouted tradition by backing into Broadway from Hollywood. Like Rebecca's, its Broadway sojourn is apt to be brief. The main trouble is that people may not care to see on the stage what they've already seen on the screen, done much better and at a quarter the price...
...Boston it was suave, patrician Governor-elect Robert Fiske Bradford, who had walloped Democratic incumbent Maurice J. Tobin in a record off-year vote. As cameras clicked, Republican Bradford stepped up for the official accolade from his wife, to the evident de light of son Robert and daughter Rebecca...