Word: lisbon
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...shuttled unperturbed across the Atlantic. A Nazi-hater who refuses to speak German any more because "to me it is a dead language," he got out of Europe last month with hardly a change of underwear. While he and Mme. Bartok raced in a bus from Geneva to Lisbon, their baggage got sidetracked and missed the boat. In the music roll under Bela Bartok's arm was the manuscript of his Kitchen Sonata...
From London he flew home via Lisbon, with delays for bad weather. This week, none too soon to suit him, he landed at LaGuardia Airport, where he was overwhelmed by five teary Kennedys: Mrs. Kennedy, daughters Jeane, Kathleen, Patricia, Eunice. First official visit was to the White House. He emerged in good humor, refused to answer any questions as to why he had come home. Later, still sphinxlike, he announced he would go on the radio and address the nation...
...story's fabrication came about as follows: one dull night the British Air Ministry got together some of the invasion-attempt rumors which had originated in Stockholm, Lisbon, Berne, "and perhaps Chicago and points west," and released them for publication-assigning the date Sept. 16 to Netherlands sources...
...John B. Fisher '41, Los Angeles, Calif.; Llonel J. Friedman '43, Cleveland, O.; Maurice S. Friedman '43, Tulsa, Okia.; Thomas B. A. Godfrey '42, Ardmore, Pa.; John S. Graettinger '43, Ontario, Calif.; Norman N. Griffith '42, Portland, Ore.; George J. Grindle '42, Washington, D. C.; Frederick J. Harrlgan '42, Lisbon, N. H.; John T. Harrington '42, Madison, Wiz.; Robert D. Hill '42, Wilmore, Ky.; Howard P. K. Hoddick '43, Alexandria, Va.; John W. Hursh '42, Cloquet, Minn.; Humphrey G. Hutchinson '41, Knoxville, Tenn.; Robert H. Ingram '42, Alameda, Calif.; Scott R. Inkley '43, South Euclid...
...behalf. Appointed press attache to the French Embassy in Washington last month, he went from Vichy to Paris, outshouted the Germans, returned with 23 trunkloads of belongings, put them and his lovely Georgia-born wife in a car and trailer and drove all the way to Lisbon with a chauffeur who was under 40 and hence by terms of the armistice not supposed to be permitted outside France. Last week wangling Chariot Brousse brooked the first brake in a long and happy career...