Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King "Freddie," as his London friends call him, it was a proud moment and sweet revenge for the humiliation back in 1953, when he watched Uganda's British Governor Sir Andrew Cohen touch a button in his office to summon a policeman. Then, King Freddie was unceremoniously hustled aboard a plane for exile in London without so much as a chance to change his clothes or say goodbye to his wife. King Freddie's sin was that he had dared defy the governor's plans for Uganda, of which Buganda is officially a province...
With five hours' fuel aboard, Navy Ordnanceman Bill Falls, 22, took off one fine day last month from San Diego's La Mesa Airport in a Taylorcraft borrowed from his best friend, Parachute Rigger Charles Schrieber. A good amateur pilot, Bill had a 24-hour liberty and planned to spend it in Phoenix with his recently widowed mother...
Died. Hector ("Wee Hector") McNeil, 48, Scottish-born Minister of State (1946-50) in Britain's postwar Labor government, Member of Parliament (1941-55), delegate to the United Nations (1946-49), Vice President of the U.N. General Assembly in 1947; of a cerebral hemorrhage suffered aboard the Queen Mary while en route to the U.S.; in Manhattan...
...Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship; with Henry Fonda, James Cagney (TIME, July...
Married. Frances Langford, 39, radio and film star; and Ralph Evinrude, 48, vice chairman of Outboard, Marine & Mfg. Co.; she for the second time, he for the third; aboard his 118-ft. yacht Chanticleer as it cruised in Long Island Sound...