Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor cabled Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and got permission for the newsmen to stop at Calcutta and Bombay, with a side jog north to New Delhi. At the Indian capital, they found Nehru too busy for a press conference. So most of the newsmen went shopping, bought jewelry and Kashmir shawls to take home to their wives, teakwood boats for their children. That evening they dug out their last clean shirts for cocktails with U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson...
Imaginative, sensitive, scarecrow-thin Neville had only four years of school, "a place of darkness and inhumanity." The public library was his university: "I discovered Charles Dickens and went crazy. I read at meals. I read under the [street] lamps. I read myself to [acute] myopia...
...toward this," Kurt Weill said last week. Everything began for him in Dessau, Germany. Townspeople soon knew that the little boy, whose huge eyes and rudimentary physique gave him somewhat the look of a tadpole, was already composing music. At 13, he wrote his first opera. At 18, he went to Berlin to study with Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel and Gretel), that same year became conductor of the opera at the small town of Lüdenscheid...
...Sept. 15, 1946, the first of the 229 houses of her (George Washington) Carver Manor went on sale at $11,400 and $11,200 each. Some 500 Negroes swarmed over the lot. Most buyers had steady jobs as schoolteachers, policemen and firemen, were good credit risks, earned enough to furnish their homes comfortably and keep them in good repair. Mrs. Grant signed up 110 buyers the first day, had waiting lines for weeks. She is now building an additional 33 units and a $140,000 shopping center for a new 95-house annex to Carver Manor, besides the bigger...
...Indianapolis speedway 18 years ago, husky, young William Richards drove his racing car over the side of the track, smashed up, and was carried away with a broken pelvis. "When you're hurt and broke," Richards later related, "you naturally come home." Back he went to his native New England, looking for something less dangerous. Said Richards: "I stumbled into farming...