Word: regions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living in Paris. For another, he admits that he likes the place. He lived there for 30 years before World War II, and wouldn't mind living there the rest of his life. He has a stone-and-wood workshop in Lahaska, in Bucks County, Pa., a region thickly settled by Broadway wits and literary wights; but his four-story, pink stucco Paris house has two studios. And he likes the talk on Paris' left bank. Last week he was shamelessly spending his time reading dusty old letters from Arnold Bennett and Gertrude Stein and arranging...
...Clear. The UNRRA workers had just witnessed the beginning of the most spectacular postwar diplomatic crisis. For the second time in a fortnight Tito's fighters had shot down an unarmed U.S. transport plane which had strayed over the forbidden corner of Yugoslavia between Austria and Italy-a region of high mountains and frequently lowering skies. Said the two U.S. eyewitnesses: "It was completely overcast; there wasn't a break in the clouds." Said Marshal Tito: "It was notorious " . . that the day was absolutely clear and of perfect visibility...
...whom do the .districts rightfully belong? Zinder told of an unlettered but wily Turkish mayor of Erzurum, largest town in the region, who just before World War I tried to give a convincing answer to a British investigating committee. The old mayor was bored by a day-long statistical and ethnical analysis of the Turkish and Armenian cases. Brusquely he cut short the discussion and led the delegates to the local Armenian cemetery. Then he showed them a much larger Turkish cemetery. "Figures like these," he said...
Unlike most top-notch junior tennis players from Southern California, Herbie Flam has a clumsy-looking cramped stroke, often hits his forehand while awkwardly facing the net. Last week at Kalamazoo, Mich., skinny, 17-year-old Herbie did something more characteristic of his region: without dropping a set, he won the National Junior Championship for the second straight year, beating Floridian Buddy Behrens in the final, 6-3, 9-7, 6-2. He also kept a record straight: since 1933, only Southern Californians have won the National Junior...
Jones, a well-to-do former Hollywood lumber executive, looks like the epitome of all the crotchety, middle-aged men in dark glasses and white flannels who hang around junior tennis tournaments. Officially, he is secretary of the Southern California Tennis Association; actually, he is dictator of his region's junior tennis. Jones decides which youngsters are invited to the important tournaments, which are sent on all-expense-paid tennis trips. (Most of the revenue comes from the big Pacific-Southwest tournament; occasionally Jones quietly helps boys out of his own pocket.) Among his ex-prot...