Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a fortnight later, a V-2 went wild internationally. It hit four miles from the center of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (pop. 48,881), made a fearful bang and dug a crater 24 feet deep and 40 feet in diameter. No one was hurt, and the people of Juarez, enjoying their spring fiesta, thought the bang was part of the show. But the diplomatic repercussions were painful. The White Sands brass, covered with cold sweat, told Karsch to work out a system for riding herd on rockets...
With a resounding pop, Italy blew off the lid that Mussolini had clamped on modern sculpture more than a score of years ago. At Varese, in the first all-Italian sculpture competitions in many a year, top honors went to a thin-faced, little-known Venetian named Alberto Viani for one of his highly abstract nudes...
...Alfred Maurer himself, the recognition came too late. In 1932, after he was past 100, Louis Maurer died and Alfred moved down from his crowded back room to his father's large, airy quarters. In two weeks, apparently overwhelmed by a sense of failure and loneliness, he went back to his hall bedroom and hanged himself...
...Manhattan last week, a bouncy brunette from Fond du Lac, Wis. (pop. 27,209) had a wonderful time. She sat entranced at Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days, went backstage at Ken Murray's Blackouts, listened to jazz at Bop City, danced the Charleston at a teen-age party, sipped a horse's neck (ginger ale and lemon peel) at the Stork Club, took a moonlight ride through Central Park in a convertible with the top down, and burned her tongue on a nightcap of hot chocolate at Rumpelmayer's. It was the kind...
Tell Me." By June the matter was settled. As soon as she could rent her apartment and pack her trunk, Margaret Clapp hopped a train and went back to her old college, twelve miles west of Boston's Copley Square. Feeling a little like Cinderella, she moved into the big white mansion she had known as the President's House. She had three sitting rooms, a drawing room, two maids, a cook, a chauffeur and two secretaries. Her new domain stretched out over 400 acres of rolling hills. From the air it looked like a series of Gothic...