Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half a century Germany's diplomats and big industrialists, deep in Drang nach Osten (Drive to the East), talked of a Berlin-to-Baghdad railway. Kaiser Wilhelm II rode through the sweltering streets of Damascus one day in 1898 to tell the citizens that Moslems "may rest assured that at all times the German Emperor will be their friend." Hitler took up where Wilhelm II left off: by the time the Nazis invaded Russia, Germany was dominating the markets of Turkey and Iran...
...since his days as a football star at Jacksonville High School and the University of Georgia. He quit school in his senior year (1932) to organize the Florida Pipe & Supply Co. with his father and older brother. His brothers, Sam, Sol, Cecil and Nathan, became his partners, and they rode the crest of the wave of the expanding chemical and pipeline industries...
Part of the mellow effect came from the devoted performance by London's Griller Quartet, for which Bloch wrote the piece. It had its angry trills and thudding undertones, yet over the harshness always rode an affirmative melody. "It is quite natural that I do not react and feel and write as I did at 20, 30, 40, or 50-when I was young," says Bloch...
Climaxing "Adolph Zukor Day" was a $75,000 dinner for 1,000-odd guests at Hollywood's Palladium. Songstress Rosemary Clooney sang (a microphone concealed in the bosom of her dress) Happy Birthday to You; William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd rode into the ballroom astride Topper to shout "Happy Birthday, Mr. Zukor!"; Oldtimer Mary Pickford made a teary speech and Oldtimer Mae Murray did a scampering dance...
Died. Hank Williams, 29, twangy-voiced singer and composer who at six began strumming a guitar, went into vaudeville at 14, rode to fame as "King of the Hillbillies" on broadcasts and recordings of his own hits (Lovesick Blues; Jambalaya; Cold, Cold Heart) ; of a heart ailment, while riding by car to a personal appearance date; near Oak Hill...