Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After twelve weeks, 1,500,000 words of testimony and 78¼ hours of deliberation, a federal jury in San Francisco last week found thin, poker-faced Iva Toguri ("Tokyo Rose") d'Aquino, 33, guilty of treason. During the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944, she had traitorously taunted Pacific theater G.I.s with a radio broadcast: "Orphans of the Pacific, you really are orphans now. How will you get home, now that all your ships are sunk?" She was the sixth U.S. citizen convicted of treason since the end of World War II.* The minimum sentence Iva could draw...
...band has always been a family affair: Guy, Carmen and Lebert own it. Sister Rose Marie (now Mrs. Henry Becker) once sang, but, says Guy, "never took it seriously." He doesn't exactly say so, but he gives the impression that the defection of kid brother Victor, who quit playing saxophone with the Royal Canadians three years ago to get up his own band, was just about the most disturbing thing since the secession of the South. In a way, all of the band members are in the family. If one musician dislikes a new song, out it goes...
...rocket which rose last week from White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex., reached an altitude of 95 miles. The most important man in the act, at least to innocent bystanders, was Herbert L. Karsch, flight safety officer. Karsch's job is to keep rockets from leaving the 90-by-35-mile area of uninhabited desert and mountains where they are supposed to hit. The authorities would consider it unfortunate, for instance, if a wandering rocket were to smack El Paso...
...night in 1914, fire broke out in College Hall. By morning, the hall ("a palace!" a visiting male had observed) was a ruin. In its place rose modern Wellesley. Stately President Ellen Fitz Pendleton and her electric brougham were succeeded by trim Mildred McAfee Horton and her Pontiac. When President Horton, wartime head of the Navy's WAVES, resigned last year to help her husband, the Rev. Douglas Horton, with his work for the Congregational Christian Churches, Wellesley went looking for a Margaret Clapp...
Ever since the Department of Justice slapped Du Pont with an antitrust suit last June, the corporation has been quietly taking its case to the country. Its executives have made speech after speech at luncheons and dinners. Last week, as he rose to address 300 newsmen at Washington's National Press Club, Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt got a chance to let the Justice Department have it at close range. Just seven places down the speaker's table sat Assistant Attorney General Herbert Bergson, boss of the Justice Department's antitrust division...