Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Potenza is a sunbaked community in southern Italy on a hilltop overlooking the Basento valley near the instep of the Italian boot. During the war, the U.S. Army had a rest center there for its troops. Today few foreigners enter this desolate, impoverished region whose capital is Potenza...
Expendable Informer. The ordeal of defendant after defendant had become almost a ritual. Backed by the FBI's own underground and the bales of reports which the FBI had been collecting since before World" War II, Prosecutor McGohey often seemed to know more about the Communists and their allies than the 'Reds themselves...
Died. Rear Admiral Frederic Robert Harris, U.S. Navy (ret.), 74, onetime Navy dock chief, World War II designer of the world's largest floating drydocks, which followed the Pacific fleet and made repairs possible in combat areas; in Man-lattan...
Having spent the war years in France, the sisters arrive in New England with their hearts set on founding a children's hospital. The fact that they have neither land nor money-and not even the wholehearted support of the bishop of the diocese-is no particular worry to them. The motto of the Order of Holy Endeavor, to which they belong, is Oramus et Laboramus (We pray and work). Sisters Margaret and Scholastica do more than that...
...days. One of them, a hobo story called "The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew," is a report of a murder told in a bantering tone reminiscent of Ring Lardner. Others are gentle spoofs on his old home town in the West, sketches of Army life in the Spanish-American War, or idyllic reminiscences of childhood...