Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Inverchapel, successor to Halifax, got close to the earth in Iowa. A farm boy who had met him in Washington invited him out home some time; the Ambassador took him up on it. For three days he bunked (in the downstairs bedroom) at a farm outside Eagle Grove, rode tractors, weeded strawberries, fed on meat and potatoes and vegetables and pie, dried the dishes. After he left for Washington, the Eagle Grove Eagle came out with the first extra in its history, ran six pictures of him in four pages...
...convening of the U.N.'s General Assembly in New York-the world had a chance to draw breath, to look both backward & forward along the rough road it was traveling. The peacemakers and world rebuilders were, most of them, in transit (see below). The world's troubles rode with them every mile...
...retreat from Moscow was over; in a room at Fontainebleau, the defeated Emperor Napoleon meditated suicide. "Preceded by the enormous Cossacks of the Imperial Guard . . . [Tsar Alexander I] rode slowly through the streets. In gaping astonishment the citizens of Paris gazed upon their conqueror. His enormous feet were thrust into stirrups of wrought gold . . . above the gold collar . . . they saw the face of a benignant calf...
...cops didn't think they would find out who rode off in it, but they had an idea that Los Angeles might get quite noisy in the next few months...
Died. Charles Kurtsinger, 39, pint-sized "Flying Dutchman" who rode two Kentucky Derby winners (Twenty Grand, 1931; War Admiral, 1937); of pneumonia; in Louisville...