Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, 63, whose death sentence for war crimes (he supervised the bombing of defenseless Warsaw and supine Rotterdam) was commuted in 1947 to life imprisonment, returned to his prison after a ten-day leave, spent with his wife at a Bavarian lakeside resort. It was all "in accordance with normal penal regulations," his British keepers announced; before he went, unguarded, "Smiling Albert" had given his word that he would be back...
Last week, U.S. skiers were getting a chance to hear more about it. Emile's new book-How to Ski by the French Method (New Directions; $6)-was just out; and Emile himself had arrived in the U.S. to teach advanced students at Idaho's great ski resort, Sun Valley...
...hurriedly mentioned her copies of Henry Adams, one of her predecessors in medieval history. What did she think of his pot shots at Harvard? "Oh, I've really not been here long enough to say. He was an extraordinarily clever man, though." Well--what about hobbies? The Last Resort. "I like walking and cycling; I do wish I had brought over my bicycle. And I also do some water-coloring. Those on the wall. I got some wonderful opportunities for painting when I was in Burma...
Every weekend ski trips leave Cambridge Friday night for ski resort in Putney Vermont: Plymouth, New Hampshire; and Conway, New Hampshire, Mass reservations make it possible to reduce costs for the weekend to $12.5 per head. The trips return by 10 o'clock on Sunday...
...events of the crime in so far as they are definitely known, and then discusses every conceivable legal angle of the case, ranging from the circumstances of the first arrests to the desperate and unsuccessful attempts to have the case brought before a Federal court as a last resort. He describes the trials, the controversial character of Judge Webster Thayer, the jury and the unorthodox way in which it was chosen, the witnesses and their testimony, and the involved question of the evidence. Although the purpose of this book is to present an objective view of the case, the authors...