Word: rainswept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like old times for the oldtimers vacationing on the Riviera. The Duke of Windsor stepped out for a wind-and-rainswept game of golf with his old friend, Belgium's exiled King Leopold (see cut)^; later on, some of the old gang dropped in for dinner at the Windsors. Winston Churchill came with his wife and daughter Sarah; Leopold came with wife Princess de Rethy, son Prince Baudouin and daughter Princess Joséphine Charlotte. Rounding out the party: Rumania's ex-King Michael and wife Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma...
...walls, some of Lamotte's paintings were as bright and cheerful as summer chintz; others seemed like twilit windows looking out on the rainswept streets, the darkening alleys, the lonely deserted shops that had caught his eye. Next week 36 Lamotte illustrations will appear in a $12.50 Limited Editions volume of Nana; light of hand but heavy with atmosphere, they are enough to give anyone that last-time-I-saw-Paris feeling...
...hustled down the rainswept Willamette Valley, over to the Pacific Coast and back to the central Oregon lumber country-pumping hands, signing autographs, ripping off ten speeches a day. He peered at cows in Corvallis, at logging operations along the Umpqua River. He accepted a salmon at Oregon City, signed his name in blood for a local booster club at Coos Bay, paraded with an organization called the "Cavemen" at Grants Pass and, at their bidding, munched on a large bone. When his bus ran over a dog near Salem, he shipped off a pedigreed cocker to the bereaved owners...
...mile trip back from Greenwich Island and Graham Land was; rough and uncomfortable. Polar gales churned the iceberg-haunted seas until the transport Presidente Pinto ran for shelter among the rainswept islands north of Cape Horn. But Chile's far-faring President Gabriel González Videla was in high spirits. His voyage to nail down Chilean Claims to Antarctic territories also claimed by the British had made him the most popular man in his country...
...Easter Sunday, at the Government-sponsored unveiling of a plaque in Strasbourg Cathedral to the American dead in Alsace, De Gaulle appeared as hero. Thousands jammed the rainswept streets to cry "De Gaulle au pouvoir!" (De Gaulle to power!). In the presence of U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, De Gaulle said: "If a new tyranny should ever menace all or part of the world, we may be certain that the U.S. and France would be together to oppose...