Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweden's King Gustaf, 90, played host to 18 guests at his annual two-day shoot in the royal forest. On the go ten hours a day, the king shot four elk. Score for his guest of honor, Norway's 45-year...
...with a German hausfrau on the Kurfurstendamm. In Munich's America House, where she made a speech, Correspondent Esther Van Wagoner Tufty caused the biggest stir of all. "They thought I was Emmy Goring!" said she. "I must say I resented that. Hell, she's at least ten years older than I am." All this she reported in her homy, wish-you-were-here dispatches...
...After ten years' work and spending more than $2,000,000 on the project, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. launched a new Sunday-school curriculum, designed to end "widespread religious illiteracy." Pupils will get not the old-style lesson sheets (which they promptly threw away) but a regular textbook each year, building a library to be used and kept at home. Parents will get the same quarterly magazines used by the teachers; their help will be sought to reduce "the 'forgetting curve' between Sundays...
...Walter A. Maier began his 16th season of broadcasts for The Lutheran Hour, the world's largest religious radio program, which goes out in ten languages to 47 countries through 1,100 stations...
...about his writing is that he has uncertain taste; he never knows when to stop. He begins with a moving description of Noah's pain at coming across anti-Semitism in the army and then collapses into a completely incredible bit of hocus-pocus in which Noah fights ten big soldiers, one by one, gets beaten up and sent to the hospital and is never helped by any officer in the Army camp. While there was anti-Semitism in the Army, it never resembled Shaw's paranoiac version of it. A good, calloused editor would have helped Shaw...