Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Margaret took over the job of Commodore of Britain's Sea Rangers (the seagoing Girl Guides), a post her sister held a couple of years ago...
...month ago, a short, scholarly-looking man named Jack Lewis rented a shabby basement apartment on Manhattan's West 74th St. He and his wife were a quiet couple who had few callers and got no mail except for one lone postcard. It was from "Joe" in Haiti and said only, "Having a swell time." Lewis told the landlord that he was a statistical engineer, that he was gathering material for a book on mathematics. Henna-haired Mrs. Lewis, 42, never spoke to the neighbors...
George Drew called the speech "inadequate." Taxes, he said, should have been cut long ago. The proposed commission on culture was a device for stalling on such problems as television and government-owned radio. For an hour and 45 minutes he lectured the Liberals on the faults of centralizing power in the federal government...
Cool-eyed Conchita Cintron, 26, the world's top woman bullfighter got the cold shoulder in Mexico. She flew into Mexico City, ran smack into opposition from the local bullfighters' union: their ring, where she had wrung oles from the crowds eight years ago, was now no place for a woman. Back in 1940, Peru's Conchita had airily remarked that Mexican bulls were passable, but not nearly fierce enough to suit her taste...
Picket Parade. Pianist Gieseking had asked for a U.S. visa in Paris, and got it. He was cleared by the U.S. Military Government two years ago. Since then he has played for U.S. troops in Germany, been acclaimed for his music in Britain, France, Holland, Denmark, Italy. He arrived at New York City's International Airport, smiling and confident. Asked his U.S. managers: "Walter, is everything all set? Are you free to go wherever you want?" Burly (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.), cherub-faced Pianist Gieseking beamed: "Everything is set, so far as I know...