Word: vi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Joseph Sigall, 61, Polish-born portrait painter of European monarchs (Britain's George VI, Germany's Wilhelm II), U.S. Presidents (Coolidge, Hoover, F.D.R.) and celebrities (General Douglas MacArthur, Film Siren Pola Negri); of a heart ailment; in La Jolla, Calif...
...Marquess of Milford Haven, second cousin of the late King George VI...
...topping even such box-office attractions as Helen Hayes. Mae West and Katharine Cornell. Shirley's 12½% of the gross equals the highest salary ever paid a star in the "summer theater capital of the U.S." This fall she goes to Hollywood to make her second movie. Viña Delmar's About Mrs. Leslie, the story of an amiable boardinghouse landlady. Then she will rush back to Broadway for rehearsals of a new musical, By the Beautiful Sea, which is being written to order for her by Herbert and Dorothy (Annie Get Your Gun) Fields. After...
...become the world language he hoped for, but it has turned into a minor international cult. Today, Esperantists claim to be 1,500,000 strong, about 10,000 of them in the U.S. There are Esperanto books from La Sankta Biblio to Kiel Plaĉas Al Vi (As You Like It). Australia has made a movie in it; KLM has advertised, "Flugado ŝparas tempon kaj monon" (Flying saves time and money); and Bing Crosby sang an Esperanto song in The Road to Singapore. Last week the Thollets proved what tourists can accomplish by simply asking, "Ĉu vi...
...mild-mannered little man who learned the language in three months,* Charles Thollet got his first taste of American hospitality when he received a shore-to-ship telephone call while still one day out of New York: "Vi estas bonvenita en Usono." Next day a group of enthusiastic Esperantists were at the pier. They whisked the Thollets through customs, drove them to a hotel, took them up the Empire State Building ("Kiel alta!", exclaimed the Thollets), wined & dined them for six days...