Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient Sioux held an oldtimers' reunion at South Dakota's Custer State Park. They were the last of the Indian band which had massacred Lieut. Colonel George A. Custer and 250 troopers of the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876. Now the buffalo were gone and the white man had taken their Black Hills. Said one irascible old brave: "I wish my people were strong enough to get them back...
...doctrinal reunion. Anglicans were still Anglicans (see below) and the other member churches had also yielded no iota of dogma. But the assembly was living proof that Christians could work and plan together. It showed the churches' dawning conviction that without such unity they cannot hope to challenge the secularism of modern society...
...Long Road. Even to this starting point toward reunion, the road had been long and rocky. Dr. John R. Mott, at 83 the only surviving leader of the Edinburgh Conference of 1910 - the first great ecumenical meeting - addressed the opening service in the Nieuwe Kerk, which was spruced up for Princess Juliana's investiture as Queen of The Netherlands on Sept. 6. He movingly recalled "the preparatory stages" at Jerusalem, Madras, Stockholm, Lausanne, Oxford, Edinburgh and Utrecht "which have brought us to this hour...
Orson Welles, and his reunion at the Hotel du Cap with estranged wife Rita Hayworth. They kissed in the lobby, then settled down for a day of play, ending with a glorious evening in a Cannes nightclub and buckets of champagne. When Orson had to go to Rome on business, Rita wept but gamely went out to dinner that night with Aly Khan, eldest son of the Aga ("Richest man in the world") Khan...
Fred Astaire, who was talked out of a twelve-month retirement to pinch-tap for an injured star in Easter Parade last October, got a return break. When his co-star in The Barkleys of Broadway got sick, Ginger Rogers agreed to fill in, effecting a nostalgic screen reunion after ten years...