Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week preparations for Christmas went on as usual. In the east end of the second-floor corridor stood the small family tree, decorated with ornaments handed down via attic trunk from one Christmas to the next. And, as in the past, the President's plans called for the...
But sorrowing old President Kallio was too tired to climb the mountain-high problems ahead of him last spring. His country's best land had been handed over to the enemy. The best of its male youth was dead or disabled. Shortages of food, medicine and clothing were tying...
A tall, hearty man of military bearing is Sir Keith Murdoch, now 54. He lives in a big U. S. Colonial home outside Melbourne, owns a couple of sheep stations (ranches), collects paintings, silver, glass, Chinese ceramics. Born in Melbourne, son of a Presbyterian minister, Murdoch (not knighted till 1933...
Last week, in the thick of these revelations, the Quartermaster Corps's Brigadier General Charles D. Hartman was relieved from duty. He was no scapegoat, said the War Department, but a man who was sick from overwork. Assigned to plug the holes in Army construction was the Corps of...
Virginia Lewis might well have showed stage fright, but she didn't. When she stepped on the stage at Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell one night last summer, before the Philadelphia Orchestra and Conductor Alexander Smallens, she had never sung with an orchestra. She had not been rehearsed...