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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent garden party given by Russian Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov, someone asked Hakimi what he thought would be the nature of the next Persian government. Hakimi thought he was being asked what kind of shoes he was wearing. "American," replied Hakimi to the amazement of his hosts, "yes, American...
...After leading the anti-government forces to victory in Costa Rica's recent civil war, José Figueres became head of the ruling Junta, in effect, the nation's chief executive. His pretty brunette wife is the former Henrietta Boggs of Birmingham...
...operation has been performed on 14 patients. All were schizophrenics, manic-depressives, or psychoneurotics in obsessive states. In the first three cases the technique was not perfected, and there was no improvement. The last three operations were too recent to test results. Of the other eight, one died; three are still in institutions; four improved enough to return home, one enough to get a job (as a farm worker...
...Recent films that movie shoppers have considered eminently worth seeing, according to Variety...
...books should encourage a beginning writer as much as this one. An anthology of the best writing of the 42 Nobel Prizewinners*-from 1901 through 1947- should theoretically be a cross section of the 20th Century's best world literature. But the fact is, these masterpieces of the recent past, placed together in one compact volume, seem extremely uneven. This book contains such material as Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, excerpts from André Gide's Journals. It contains masterpieces like Ivan Bunin...