Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini appeared in the first convincing evidence of their September reunion in Germany. Three snips of a German newsreel featured: 1) Adolf's onetime handyman, 2) Adolf's handshake, 3) Adolf's hand-dance...
...Reunion. The white ship with the green band around her belly and red crosses all over her turned up in Liverpool next day. As the Atlantis came alongside the quay, a voice began calling "Cynthia"; soon the battered ranks along the rail were roaring in chorus: "Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia." A tall, handsome girl stepped out of the packed crowd on the dock and waved. Cynthia Elliot, niece of Lady Maud Carnegie, was taken prisoner with a mobile canteen unit in France in 1940, put to nursing 1,500 wounded and captured men of Dunkirk. With many of those...
Victorious on Broadway (TIME, Nov. 1), Shakespeare is also advancing at a neat clip up the West Coast. Last month Cinemactor John Carradine (Grapes of Wrath, Reunion in France) "dress rehearsed" Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, at Pasadena's famed Playhouse, a Shakespeare stronghold that has produced all 37 of the Bard's plays. Carradine's productions were thoughtful rather than exciting, shunned novelty and sensationalism: as Shylock, for example, Carradine refused to point up the racial issue. But, despite gas rationing, Carradine's three-week run broke all Playhouse records for Shakespeare, turned away...
...Home Week. The atmosphere at a Redistribution station is deliberately relaxed. It is more like a class reunion or a company convention where men from the field come home for a good time and a good talk. Men report to the station after a 20-day leave, are told briefly the purpose of their 15-day visit, assigned to a place in a temporary squadron and to a room. Officers and enlisted men have equivalent accommodations, two to a room, although in different hotels. At Atlantic City, offi cers go to the Ritz, enlisted men to the Ambassador, both newly...
Coming back to reunion the following year, a student shook his professor's hand and said: "I got more out of that course in Shakespeare than out of any other. . . . What a wonderful play Macbeth was. I've" always wondered how it came out." Neither Cross nor Canby would have anything to do with such endless exegesis ot an author, and they managed gradually to impress their more liberal views on the Yale faculty as a whole...