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...area has its own history of brutality and violence. Near the foot of 46th Street, Nathan Hale was executed in 1776. In more recent years there have been less heroic deaths: the Veronica Gedeon murder, the Titterton and Lonergan killings...
...play. He is either 1) a Bunthorne-like playboy who absconded with the firm's funds before disappearing in the Army 4-5 years before, and is being grudgingly protected by his magnanimous and eminently successful brother Alan; or 2) he is a wronged and heroic character who really does like poetry, women, and the finer things of life, and has been murdered by his jealous brother Alan...
...Risks. More reparations in consumer goods to Russia would have several important results, some good, some bad from a U.S. viewpoint. The Russian people, who had fought a heroic war, would get a slight and well-deserved increase in their living standard. Germany's neighbors, who could not return to normal economy until Germany revived considerably, would certainly benefit. On the other hand, more consumer goods to Russians would permit the Kremlin's bosses to allocate a greater part of the Russian industrial effort to increasing the U.S.S.R. war potential. And a large flow of German production...
...until the fourth night-after a warmup of Delibes, Mozart and Puccini -will the curtains part on the serious business of a Wagnerian music drama. That night in Siegfried, the fans will get the season's first eye-&-earful of the reigning queen of the Met, heroic-voiced, heroic-sized Helen Traubel...
...early summer of 1939, when the bombings of Chungking began, Theodore H. ("Teddy") White* was a young man just a year out of Harvard, summa cum laude, who had been traveling around the world on a history scholarship. He joined the Chinese in their heroic retreat to the mountains, taking a job in their Ministry of Information. Within a few months he left the Ministry, became a TIME correspondent for the rest of the war in China. Pain without Fear. He suffered dysentery and malaria. Once all his possessions were destroyed by bombs. Occasionally he was called home...