Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cidra, high in the mountains of central Puerto Rico, Luis Muñoz Marin was taking it easy. The island's first elected governor had shut himself off from the well-wishers who had turned his town house into a public place. Only for leathery jibaros (farmers) like Eustachio Pérez Guzman was the door still open. Eustachio had vowed that if victory came to the Popular Democratic Party, he would go and kneel before Don Luis. To finance the journey, he had sold two of his six chickens, set out from his remote western hamlet of Isabela...
According to the guidebooks, there should have been a great university, standing in the middle of the town. But when British troops moved into Caen that July day in 1944, they saw no university. The night before, an Allied bomb had struck the library, and fire had destroyed the buildings. The pride of Normandy, the 500-year-old University of Caen, had vanished...
...bombing, the rector had been wounded, and scores of professors and students killed. But that fall professors reopened classes in the town's normal school, which had been used as barracks and hospital by successive waves of French, German and British troops. Students made benches and desks out of crates and rubble, plugged up windows with rags. For the rest of the war, with hardly a textbook, little paper, and no typewriters, professors lectured and gave examinations just as before. "We felt that if we could hold out for two or three years," explained one professor, "the university would...
Five years ago a neurosurgeon in Houston, her home town, operated and removed a scar from the brain, but she was better only temporarily and then got worse. One day early this month, Elizabeth, now 18, and her mother climbed out of a plane at Montreal's Dorval Airport. Like many another sufferer from epilepsy, Elizabeth was headed for McGill University's famed affiliate, Montreal Neurological Institute...
Light Up the Sky (by Moss Hart; produced by Joseph M. Hyman & Bernard Hart) is a sort of venomous paean to show business. With a veteran's often bitter knowledge, Playwright Moss Hart has chronicled the out-of-town opening of an ambitious $300,000 drama. In a hotel suite before the performance, the swishy director (Glenn Anders), the splashy producer (Sam Levene) and the gushy leading lady (Virginia Field) spray the atmosphere with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced...