Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outstanding collection of modern art. Some of it was hard to get. "It is very difficult to talk prices to [the abstract sculptor] Brancusi. ... I was aware of this and hoped my excessive friendship with him would make things easier. But . . .we ended up in a terrible row, when he asked four thousand dollars for the Bird in Space. . . . Brancusi polished all his sculptures by hand. I think that is the main reason why they are so beautiful...
...swoon sweepstakes, a new favorite has risen fast. Handsome Perry Como, 32, an ex-barber, last week finished second in Billboard Magazine's annual poll of 324 radio editors. (The winner, for the eighth year in a row, was Bing Crosby.) Como had climbed ahead of Dick Haymes and Frank Sinatra...
Wisconsin quartered 1,866 veterans in a powder plant 35 miles from the campus, 1,660 more at an Army airfield. Columbia established a "trailer campus," charging veterans for parking space but not for rent. At Rhode Island State, 28 Quonsets on Vet Row were jammed, eleven students to a hut. The president of Ohio's Marietta College took in boarders. Some hardy students at U.C.L.A. slept in all-night movies and parked cars...
...officer hurriedly adjusted a wire. Again Sir Archibald shouted: "Can you hear me?" Half a thousand throats yelled: "No!" The other half-thousand cried: "Yes." General Mansergh stepped into the breach, bellowed: "I want one man to answer and only one. Third man from the left in the last row in the balcony-can you hear the Ambassador?" A lonely voice piped: "No." Again someone fiddled with the wires. For the third time Sir Archibald cleared his throat...
...while he went through his whole repertory of pantomime, mimicry and musical burlesques. He called up kids from the audience. Once, midway through a song, he doubled up with a great belly laugh. "You won't believe this," he howled, "but a little girl in the third row is looking at me through binoculars." At the end of this zany, record performance, the audience sang Auld Lang Syne...