Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Presidente himself insisted that he knew nothing of what had happened at El Número. That in itself was odd. He once told an intimate: "Whenever anything happens here that I don't know about, or whenever anyone takes it upon himself to act without my authority, my days are numbered...
Last week Chaplain Chaphe, a veteran of World War II fighting on the Rhine, was in blue pajamas in a Tokyo hospital. He is one of the 70-odd ministers, priests and rabbis now serving with the Army* in Korea, of whom two have already been reported missing or killed in action. Back from a five days' inspection tour of the front, Colonel Ivan L. Bennett, Chief of Chaplains in the Far East Command, summed up the mission of the 175-year-old corps in one of the most difficult campaigns to which it has ministered...
...Manhattan's Fifth Avenue recently, an odd-looking, snub-nosed little car drew some mildly curious stares. Few of the onlookers realized that it was a postwar model of the Volkswagen, the car which Hitler once promised to put in every German garage. With an air-cooled rear engine, and a luggage compartment under the hood, it was the first of 600 which Germany is shipping to the U.S. to sell at $1,280 to $1,997. The Volkswagen's appearance was the latest example of a new business phenomenon: the growing revival of export trade in both...
...Korean Premier Kim II Sung, Grotewohl announced that henceforth the German Communists would welcome anyone into their ranks. Said Grotewohl: "No patriot . . . will be excluded . . . Our National Front is not limited to democratic elements. We want everybody, including the former Nazis . . ." Old Frederick had been scooped up in an odd netful...
Died. Robert Smythe Hichens, 85, author of The Paradine Case, 50-odd other novels; in Zurich, Switzerland. A turn-of-the-century favorite (The Garden of Allah, 1904, sold nearly a million copies), Novelist Hichens turned out fiction that earned him a comfortable income long after he had lost the bestselling touch...