Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over an hour one night last week, U.S. Major General Arthur Harper, General Van Fleet's deputy, watched from a Kastoria window as the rebels lobbed sixty 75-mm. shells into the town. A direct hit through the window of a nearby hospital killed two soldiers and two nurses. The next day Americans asked why the city's lights had not been turned off during the shelling. The answer was fear of looting by neighbors. The Greek army's artillery did not answer the guerrillas until half an hour after the shelling had ended...
...rough-riding Valkyrie. She descended on Berlin via the airlift, sitting on bags of coal. She slept in Hitler's airraid bunker, interviewed General Clay, went shopping with a German hausfrau on the Kurfurstendamm. In Munich's America House, where she made a speech, Correspondent Esther Van Wagoner Tufty caused the biggest stir of all. "They thought I was Emmy Goring!" said she. "I must say I resented that. Hell, she's at least ten years older than I am." All this she reported in her homy, wish-you-were-here dispatches...
...polo team, hard pressed financially, will send only four men to the match, or just enough for a full team and a sub, Captain Sandy Calhoun, Emory Houghton, and Emil Van Peborgh are slated to start with Tom Calhoun as reserve...
...note of color will be added to the Harvard squad by Van Peborgh who halls from Buenos Aires and plays polo in gancho garb...
...Manhattan's Starling Products brought out the latest in bathroom art: plastic shower curtains with color reproductions of Van Gogh's paintings (The Bridge at Aries and Boats of Saintes-Maries). The curtains, first of a series of reproductions of famed paintings, will retail...