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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homebody. In Montclair, N.J., Coffing Melkin Arslanian was permitted to use his business address as his voting residence. He lives in a tree...
...entered Partisan territory ten miles behind the fighting line, traveled 25 miles in an automobile, saw a Partisan train, and visited the last session of the Anti-Fascist Youth Congress. Now three barefoot urchins are arranging a bouquet of cherry blossoms by a pool under a huge walnut tree. This is liberated enough...
Boxing is the favorite entertainment of the occupation forces on Guadalcanal. Every Saturday night U.S. servicemen, New Zealanders and woolly-haired natives choke the roads to the ringside, scramble for seats in trucks parked bumper to bumper. More than an hour before the first bout, every nearby coconut tree is loaded with spectators and standing room is hard to find...
Most striking Losch oil: Saga in Five Movements, which was five paintings in one and an allegory of the life of woman to boot. In it Woman 1) emerges hopefully from adolescence, 2) meets a lover under a tree in Eden, 3) wanders in solitude, 4) swings on a symbolic bar between heaven and earth, 5) returns to a home and children...
...more appropriate that the No. 1 corporate defendant should be the U.S.'s Diamond Match Co., and that the first individual named was Diamond's secretive, 67-year-old engineer president, William Armstrong Fairburn. Match King Fairburn, who works most of the time at his secluded, tree-hedged ranch in California's Ojai Valley and rarely appears in Diamond's discreet Manhattan offices, has run Diamond like a Central American dictator since 1910, when he was called in to figure out how to make matches without poisoning match workers...