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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALGIERS--Ten French soldiers were killed Saturday night when Algerian Nationalist rebels ambushed a convoy escorting workmen near Port Tigzirt, east of Algiers. Three native workmen and one European also were killed in the ambush. Army sources said the convoy was moving through a difficult mountain terrain largely controlled by the Nationalists...
...Christmas gave out the presents under a 20-ft. tree. Other convicts served iced cakes, candies and jellies that a former bricklayer had made in the prison kitchen the day before. Guards, unarmed, strolled about in costumes too, but had nothing to worry about: convicts were on their honor. Near by, the African prisoners swung into a haunting Silent Night, And on the fringes of the crowd, snatching bits of paper streamers and begging slices of watermelon, were scores of ragged black children who had not been invited. "Next year," promised a prison warder as he watched them...
Brought up near the Amsterdam docks, Appel worked as a youth in his father's : barber shop, early decided against so niggling and polite a trade. Painting was his only care, and to pursue it, he lived in hunger and rags, moving often and taking to the road for long stretches. The poor Belgian miners to whose grandfathers the young Van Gogh had ministered as a tortured divinity student were amazed when the ragged Appel appeared to paint them in his turn, in their turn ministered to him, sharing what they had with the hot-eyed and hungry traveler...
...Land when Hubert was 16. The boy managed to finish college, got a job as a mining engineer, finally bought a promising silver mine in Rawhide, Nev. When the vein ran out, he looked around for a job, after due consideration signed on as manager of a rundown cemetery near Los Angeles. One day in 1917, as Eaton surveyed his "depressing patches of devil grass, straggling untidy pepper trees [and] grim granite headstones," he was seized with a thrilling vision of "a great park, devoid of [the] customary signs of earthly death," where the dead might, in the biographer...
Author Dunham states in a note to the reader that what she has written is not an autobiography, but the book's heroine is a girl named Katherine Dunham who grew up near Chicago, as did the author, the daughter of an American Negro man and a light-skinned French Canadian woman. Albert Dunham, the sullen, tormented father, dominates the story. Ambitious and immature, he marries beautiful Fanny June Taylor, a well-to-do woman many years older than he, and for a time is able to regard himself as a man of property. But not long after Katherine...