Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then drew his own composite picture of the unknown diarist-a tall man, an important individual, friendly with Seward, Sumner, Douglas and lesser figures such asr William Aspinwall and James Orr, a man of the world, with a good knowledge of the French language, a strong Unionist with many Southern friends, a man with many business interests and a wide acquaintance in New York City, and-above all-a man who had been in New York City on Feb. 20, 1861, and in Washington on some 20 days between Dec. 28, 1860 and March...
Happy Jeep. Wearing his "lucky boots" and a silver-mounted .45 automatic, Costa Rica's Provisional President José Figueres jeeped happily around inspecting his outpost troops. With him rode President-elect Otilio Ulate. The foreign threat had given Figueres' faltering junta a popularity unknown since last spring's civil...
...pretty much the rule with intimate revues, Lend an Ear is almost completely new faces and unknown names. But a number of these-as is pretty much the rule, too, when the revues are any good-may before long be pleasantly familiar. Among the others: Yvonne Adair, George Hall and Carol Channing, a large doll-eyed blonde who can be almost spectacularly funny...
...young (38), unknown French professor of philosophy in 1943 when he published Being and Nothingness, a 700-page look at modern man's predicament. So well did he echo the prevailing French despair that he became a Parisian hero, quit his teaching job and unleashed a flood of controversial writing that included novels, short stories, plays, essays and off-the-cuff journalism. Almost all of it has been a clinical, repetitious elaboration of his grim teaching: wretched man comes into this rotten world through no fault of his own. The concept of God, argues Sartre, is an irrational delusion...
This fall the footprints of a big unknown bird were found in the wild mountainous country near Lake Te Anau on South Island. Dr. Geoffrey Orbell, a physician from Invercargill, led an expedition to look for it. They climbed up into the wilderness close to snowline. At last Dr. Orbell saw what looked like a takahe. Battling his excitement he crouched to take a picture while the other members of the party, two men and a girl, crept cautiously around and threw a net over not one, but two takahes...