Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of Monday, May 7, while the East Coast was going to work, while the West Coast still slept, radios across the U.S. blared out the announcement of Germany's new foreign minister, Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, that Germany had surrendered unconditionally. This was the first news that the end had come...
Said Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, who had it from Heinrich Himmler on April 24; Hitler had a cerebral hemorrhage, might already be dead...
...Russia asked only to delay the vote until Argentina's record could be studied. At a full session of the world conference that afternoon, Molotov stumped to the rostrum, quoted Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull on Argentina's recent sins against the Allies. But arguments did not count; the U.S., the Latin Americans, most of the Europeans had lined up against him. On the decisive vote, only Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Greece supported the Soviet Union. Many a delegate instantly wondered: would Molotov and his delegation take their beating, stay in the conference...
...lives in Mexico, but to judge from the pictures he paints, it might as well be the Mountains of the Moon. He calls his paintings Spatiales, Gyras, Tellurins, Erouns, Aerogyls and Cosmogones. They look it. Wolfgang Paalen, a shy, high-domed man of 37, an Austrian count, will have no truck with organized surrealism and abstractionism; they are too literary and cold for his taste...
Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basic, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Teschemacher. Decca has marketed such choice collections as Riverboat Jazz and Harlem Jazz, 1930. Asch has continued to record the jazz chamber music played in Manhattan's nightclubs by Mary Lou Williams and Art Tatum...