Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire (cause unknown) destroyed all the furnishings, books and paintings in Franklin D. Roosevelt's study in the Manhattan house* once owned by his mother...
...moment, Soviet Ambassador Dimitri Zhukov was still in Santiago, but many a Chilean thought he would not stay long. Two days after the Yugoslavs got the gate, his windows were peppered by machine-gun bullets from unknown attackers. Chile promptly expressed regret. The Soviet Union just as promptly called the shooting "a shocking infringement upon diplomatic immunity." González Videla was moving into the big time...
...impartial survey of nine professors and seven school superintendents declared the schools and administration to be "tolerable verging on poor." Teacher appointments were based on political drag rather than merit, instructors had little incentive and virtually no leadership, and student guidance programs were unknown. Equally important, but less fundamental points concerned antiquated teaching methods, obsolete texts, the lack of adequate vocational training, hazardous, airless buildings, foul sanitary systems, poor medical facilities, and a short twenty-minute lunch period designed to develop a race of jack rabbits with east iron stomachs...
...status of Jim Kenary, left half injured against Virginia, was unknown last night, and it was doubtful that first-string center Chuck Glynn, also hurt Saturday, would be able to perform against Holy Cross. If Glynn plays, it will be with a cast on his arm. Stretch Mazzone, an end, was also considered as possibly being ready for Saturday...
First prize ($2,500) went to one of the few bright spots: a tall, rainbow-colored patchwork of windows against a night sky. It had been painted by an unknown, 34-year-old Philadelphian named Henry Kallem, who submitted it without much expectation of winning a prize. Like last year's prizewinning What Atomic War Will Do to You, Kallem's half-abstract canvas bore a socially conscious title: Country Tenement. Explained Kallem: "My idea was to show how I felt seeing this scene one evening in the country-all the people crowded into one building with...