Word: war
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boxing championship match in 1947). But he hit the really big money with a gambling joint called the Key Club off Manila's Dewey Boulevard. He was also a generous spender who won friends by donating $15,000 to a polio clinic and giving freely to orphans, lepers, war refugees...
...played Impresario Sol Hurok's wife in a George Jessel-produced turkey called Tonight We Sing. She played a Roman lady in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a Civil War widow, a carnival aerialist, a gangster's daughter and an interminable list of Indian girls. For one movie (The Last Frontier), with Robert (Music Man) Preston, Anne even became a blonde...
...General Lucius DuBignon Clay, the compact (5 ft. 9 in., 170 tbs.), hard-driving chairman and chief executive of Continental Can Co. West Pointer ('18) Clay, 62, carried out one of the biggest logistical jobs in history as director of materiel in the Army Service Forces in World War II. After war's end, as commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Zone, he directed the reordering and rebuilding of a major segment of Germany, and fought the Russian blockade of Berlin. Since he joined Continental in 1950, he has used...
...years is a lot to pack into a novel. Yugoslavian Author Andric does it in a splendidly evocative story of his home town, for centuries a meeting place of many races and a target for a variety of conquerors. There is no plot except the rhythm of war and peace, life and death...
...KING'S WAR, 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. The second volume of a top-notch history of Britain's 17th century civil war...