Word: trunksful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George William Rendel, slight, shy, former British Minister to Bulgaria, is a long-suffering gentleman. When Minister Rendel left Bulgaria last year after the Nazis' arrival, someone planted a bomb in his luggage. No sooner had Minister Rendel and his diplomatic party arrived in the ornate lobby of Istanbul...
Axis diplomats in Washington were a downcast crew. The U.S. could not let them leave until U.S. diplomats in Axis lands could leave too. Likelihood was that Ambassador Grew and his staff would get out of Japan by way of Russia and Alaska. But meantime Ambassadors were a drug on...
First prize at Chicago ($750) went to New York's Russian-born, patriarchal Max Weber, who is regarded with almost religious veneration by his fellow painters. He was doing somber Cézanne-like landscapes and gloomy Picassoish nudes and rabbis before most U.S. modern artists had abstracted their...
U.S. undergraduates have changed their minds about war. This fact became clear this fall as soon as they had unpacked their trunks and begun to write editorials for their college papers.
Last week a Moscow children's paper, describing the Moscow Zoo during an air raid, found ostriches, buffaloes and deer scared, lions and bears brave. But they paid special tribute to Moscow's gallant elephants. "When some incendiary bombs fell near by the elephants rushed to the pond...