Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Masters. At New London's Connecticut College, which with New York University established a modern dance center last year after Bennington College (Vt.) had dropped it during the war, new chips were falling almost daily...
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). Eloquent and powerful, this war-written symphony by the dean of English composers is one of this century's greatest. Performance and recording: good...
...Aldrich Family. Ezra Stone has long been radio's Henry Aldrich, a callow, voice-cracking adolescent. Since Stone (a master sergeant in World War II) is now fat, 32 and balding, he says: "On TV it will have to be a different show, with a new Henry. Our radio technique of abrupt sequences and staccato action will change to quieter, more restrained comedy...
...crutches after an accident in 1926, was prompted by husband John Marsh to write a novel instead of straining her eyes reading them. She wrote on & off for nearly ten years, reluctantly surrendered her incomplete manuscript to the Macmillan Co. in 1935. The monumental (1,037 pages) Civil War romance was a spectacular success, sold more than 6,000,000 copies in 30 languages, earned for its publicity-shy author a Pulitzer Prize (1937) and well over...
Died. Thomas Henry Wintringham, 51, tough, battle-scarred veteran of the Spanish Civil War International Brigade (he commanded the British battalion) and military author (Armies of Freemen, 1940; People's War, 1942); of a heart ailment; in Barnetly, England. A natural soldier, Guerrillista Wintringham (who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1936 for disobedience) compressed his fighting experience into a slim 25? handbook, New Ways of War ("a homeowner's guide to killing people without getting killed...