Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most severe blizzards in U.S. history. It invaded the U.S. from Canada, bellowed across the Dakotas, parts of Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado almost without warning. It lasted for three days; temperatures dropped far below freezing (lowest: 11 below zero at Laramie, Wyo.), and the wind ran as high as 75 miles an hour...
...Colorado, soldiers from Camp Carson drove Army Weasels through the storm to bring out patients bound for hospitals. On the open range, the storm threatened thousands of cattle; they drifted in bunches, rumps to the wind, weakening steadily from lack of food...
...like old times for the oldtimers vacationing on the Riviera. The Duke of Windsor stepped out for a wind-and-rainswept game of golf with his old friend, Belgium's exiled King Leopold (see cut)^; later on, some of the old gang dropped in for dinner at the Windsors. Winston Churchill came with his wife and daughter Sarah; Leopold came with wife Princess de Rethy, son Prince Baudouin and daughter Princess Joséphine Charlotte. Rounding out the party: Rumania's ex-King Michael and wife Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...
...thought of Chicago's climate bothered him, for one thing: "I'm afraid the wind would make me nervous." He was even more worried about Chicago's hospitality. Explained an intimate friend: "The maestro . . . fears he may be unwelcome because he was appointed first musician of the Reich by Hitler, although he has [since] been cleared by the denazification courts . . ." But Furtwangler was told there was "no need to worry." In Vienna, the gaunt, 62-year-old conductor announced the deal himself: he would conduct for eight weeks at a sum neither he nor Chicago would reveal...
Cries & Convictions. Last week, the wind was howling hard enough in Chicago to blow any man down, and from a somewhat unexpected quarter. Most fellow musicians had kept their opinions to themselves when Soprano Kirsten Flagstad hit the comeback trail, two years ago, after merely accepting life in occupied Norway (TIME, Dec. 27). But when word got around that Furtwangler would be coming too, they set up an angry cry that could be heard all the way to Vienna...