Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time Joan Fontaine is Tessa, the nubile nymph doomed to love in vain (in Switzerland and England) for 105 cineminutes, and to expire of excess happiness and a heart attack inside of one. Charles Boyer is egocentric Composer Dodd, who does not notice that little Tessa is growing up and in love with him. Alexis Smith is his icy socialite wife, who does notice...
...Shade. D.T.C. is the Army's only training theater of operations. Like a battle area, it is organized into two zones: an inner combat zone, itself a fifth larger than Switzerland; an outer communications zone for supply troops. It spreads out over a barren, treeless land of salt lakes, crazily ripped by jagged, granite mountains. Dryness keeps the heat barely endurable: Last week it was 120° in rare patches of shade...
Died. Sigrid Onegin, 52, famed contralto; in Lugano, Switzerland. Born in Stockholm, of German and Huguenot extraction, the statuesque diva was a U.S. opera and concert favorite from...
...vanished Douglas had taken off from Portela airfield outside Lisbon, an international junction shared by Allied and Axis planes. The afternoon transport from London used to bring English newspapers for the German Embassy. Over this line, via Switzerland, passed information on war prisoners. The planes using Portela enjoyed an unwritten guarantee of safe conduct...