Word: vt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Trouble. In Newport, Vt., Frank Curran could not get gas for the 14-ft. motorboat he had built, even if he could get it out of his cellar...
Married. Dorothy Thompson, 48, columnist; and Maxim Kopf, 51, refugee Czech artist; each for the third time; in Barnard, Vt. She divorced Sinclair Lewis last year, Austrian writer Josef Bard in 1927. After the bridal supper, the groom put on tights, did a one-man wrestling...
Rosie's creator was probably the best-loved U.S. artist alive-lean, likable Norman Rockwell, painter of the nationally distributed Four Freedoms posters. After the Rosie episode, he got a good deal of personal mail at his home in Arlington, Vt. One of the letters felt that Michelangelo must be about as restful in his grave as a drill in a cavity. The others were pleased. Mr. Rockwell himself, quite untroubled, told questioners that the modeling was of course deliberate, that he thought it would be "fun." He added, "At first I was going to make it entirely like...
...executive of the Army Training Schools at Harvard is Captain Bernard A. Merriam, Harvard '09. Captain Merriam arrived here last week from Fort Ethan Allen, Vt., where he served in various capacities. At Harvard, Captain Merriam rejoins Col. Wood with whom he served for a year at Ethan Allen and will serve as Col. Wood's executive officer...
...caliber of Lake Placid's will be few. But New England can boast the cream of European ski teachers. The world's most famed Skimeister, 52-year-old Hannes Schneider, is continuing at North Conway, N.H. the school he founded in the Austrian Tyrol. At Manchester, Vt. his onetime assistant, Otto Lang, has transplanted the school he operated at Sun Valley during the past two years. Among Lang's corps of assistants are many famed Alpine experts, including Shirley ("Elli") Stiller, one of the few women instructors...