Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause celebre that received national publicity was the "Gilbert-Poor Affair." "The evening was warm," Time magazine said later. "The Yard, as ever on such spring evenings, was restless. Two Harvard freshman strolled down to the Charle's grassy banks. They were Peter Varnum Poor, son of the famed Painter Henry Varnum Poor, and craig Philip Gilbert, son of a Manhattan lawyer. A group of high school boys shouted at them, but they paid no attention...
...Family Affair. In Ottawa, Hockey Player Connie Brown accidentally flipped the puck into a crowd of 9,170, gave his father a nine-stitch cut in the face...
...first Jackson Day dinner since 1944 turned out to be Harry Truman's kind of party. Though Washington's Mayflower Hotel had put out its best napery, the affair had the informality of a barbecue. Fortified with bourbon, 1,800 Democrats uncomplainingly ate the 700-calorie "austerity dinner" (tomato soup, baked chicken, potatoes, salad and one oatmeal cookie) for which they had paid $400 apiece. They whistled, whooped and slapped backs. Soprano Grace Moore rose with a flash of jewels, and sang a hillbilly song. Leon Henderson gave her a cigar...
...born Frank Toscani, a grade-three clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before he went off to war, began to find embarrassed frustration as well as wonder in his shadow. Both stage & screen showed Joppolo carrying on-though not quite carried away by-a love affair. Joppolo also countermanded a stupid order by a general, and got transferred for it. Worst of all, Frank Toscani felt that the shadow was not sharing his huge earnings with anybody but Writer Hersey, Playwright Osborn, Producer Leland Hayward and the Playwrights Producing Co., Inc., and Twentieth Century-Fox Film...
Alien Sin. The war brought Peggy and Surrealist Max Ernst together in Marseilles. Says she: "He had white hair and big blue eyes and a handsome, beaklike nose resembling a bird's. He was exquisitely made. . . . When I began my affair with Max Ernst it was not serious but soon I discovered that I was in love with him." They fled to the U.S. together, and while Ernst painted feathered nudes, Peggy got her Manhattan gallery under...