Word: returning
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Flagstad had returned to Norway and her quisling husband after the occupation. The Norwegian Legation in Washington had refused to approve her return, but she went anyway, using her Norwegian passport, and traveling by way of Portugal, Spain and Berlin. She had never sung for the Germans, nor for the quislings. Her only wartime concerts were in neutral Sweden and Switzerland. Her husband died last year in a hospital while awaiting trial for collaboration. The Norwegian Government had no legal charges against her, and coldly gave her a passport. Norwegians felt a decided chill toward their great singer, who during...
Died. George Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, 56, King George II of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Sparta, six months after his second return to the Greek throne; of a heart attack; in Athens (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...return for a release of the Central stock, Young told ICC he would gladly place his holdings in the Nickel Plate (which competes with the Central) in a similar voting trust. If all goes well with plans for unifying the Central and the C. & O., said Young, the Nickel Plate stock would be disposed of entirely. Finally, Young asked that he, as C. & O.'s board chairman, and Robert J. Bowman, as C. & O.'s president, be permitted to accept an invitation to join Central's board of directors (TIME, March...
...North African governor, General Maxime Weygand, "was just as intent as we on excluding the Germans from North Africa and blocking any program of collaboration." Nine months before the U.S. went to war with Germany, the U.S. agreed to ship Weygand limited supplies of coal, sugar, tea, etc. In return, Weygand let U.S. vice consuls work with French Resistance leaders and report in cipher to Washington. In this and other ways the ground was prepared for the military invasion (Operation Torch) the following year...
Madman's Memory is a study of how the two women react to Luc's disappearance. Françoise has long since given him up for dead, but old Madame La Hourie believes that he will soon return. She hangs out his yellowing shirts to air, orders a servant to drag down from the attic the mattress on which he used to sleep. Françoise tries to humor her mother-in-law's obsession, but in the end becomes almost as obsessed herself...