Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...servants in its employ, who have sworn loyalty to its vague sovereignty, live far from home, work hard, and-amid the noble words and great issues raging about them-lead lives of quiet irritation. This week some of these forgotten men & women got a small place in the limelight. At Lake Success, U.N. opened an exhibition of 200 paintings by secretariat members. The pictures gave interesting insights into the preoccupations of people who, sometimes more than the windy statesmen...
...Last week, in a report to U.N.'s General Assembly, the Negotiators revealed what progress they had made trying to reconcile the two plans: exactly none...
...Anything Happened." One day last week Saint-Exupéry's goddaughter rode high in the sky over the Atlantic. Dark-haired Suzanne Roig was the daughter of Georges Roig, an old friend of the novelist and one of France's pioneer aviators himself. "I'll never get tired of traveling," she wrote to a friend recently. Last week she was back at her job as stewardess of a huge Air France Constellation just making ready to come in for a landing at Azores' Santa Maria airfield. The sky around her ship was clear, and laced...
...month-old baby her husband had not yet seen. In Montreal, Reporter Yves Jasmin, brother of one of Canada's outstanding French-language news editors, had happy news. "I had a letter from Guy," he told friends. "He and mother are expected to land in New York this week." Mrs. Jasmin had been making her first round-trip flight. Before she left, she had told a neighbor that she hoped "if anything was going to happen it would be on the westbound trip, because then she would have seen France...
...most important single item in Suzanne's waybill was tough, pompadoured Marcel Cerdan, the idolized middleweight boxing champ who last June dropped his title to Jake LaMotta in Detroit. "Don't worry, darling," Marcel had told his wife in Casablanca over the phone from Orly Airport last week, "I'll get there and I'll bring back that title." As Marcel and his manager climbed aboard the plane, there was little doubt in French hearts that both prophecies would be borne...