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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...switchover from military to civilian rule was a hectic experience for the people on occupation duty. U.S. occupation headquarters, which had moved from Berlin to Frankfurt in August, was in turmoil. One by one, General Lucius Clay's top men had resigned; personnel had been slashed from 2,300 to 1,400. New men were coming in. In Berlin, 200 families of U.S. officials were waiting anxiously for houses in or near overcrowded Frankfurt. The old headquarters of OMGUS (Office of Military Government for Germany, U.S.), where Clay had sat out the blockade, was deserted...
...funeral of Rita Guay in Quebec three weeks ago, no one mourned more demonstratively than her husband Albert. Rita had died in the Quebec Airways plane crash on Sept. 9 which killed 23 people, including three top executives of the Kennecott Copper Corp...
...top of a hill in Britain's Hampshire countryside one morning last week trooped a procession of 500 boys, some clad in flowing black robes, others straw-hatted in neat tweeds and flannels. After Anglican prayers, the boys marched down the hill to their lodgings and breakfasted on sausages and fried tomatoes...
...Chosen from more than 400 applicants, the 54 pioneers will spend their first year in classrooms borrowed from U.C.L.A.'s liberal-arts school; next year, with an expected entering class of 200, they will have a $1,600,000 building of their own. Eventually, enrollment is expected to top...
Lautrec, an ugly and aristocratic dwarf descended from France's powerful medieval Counts of Toulouse, had drifted among the confetti and champagne of Montmartre at its brightest, wandering in & out of bars, dance halls, brothels, sketching satchel-eyed lechers in boiled shirts and top hats, provocative cocottes in billowing pantalettes and immense bonnets. On his advertisements for nightclubs, books, magazines and plays, Lautrec had portrayed his disreputable and talented cronies with the subtlety of a Japanese print backed by the dash and action of a circus broadside...