Word: alain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Darlan's political intrigues have brought him few if any friends among France's naval aristocracy, which, by tradition at least, keeps its mind on warships. He has a wife, as retiring as the Admiral is not, and a son, Alain, who recently quit the Navy, where he had been a code officer, in favor of the insurance business. Social superiors of Darlan like to call attention to his French-bourgeois habit of wearing a wing collar, which has earned him the nickname of "The Tax Collector." But all this the Admiral can and does ignore...
Tennessee-born Miss Burge, head of the music department at the Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College at Pine Bluff, Ark., owed her Stadium engagement-her bigtime debut-to a selling talk by President Alain Locke of Howard University, whence she graduated...
Plans for the tour are the result of three years' effort by Comtesses Alain de Pierreien to establish international study tours for University students. Comtesse de Pierreien has sought support in the United States and abroad for a round-the-world tour, to which each country would contribute gifted students, but the project was called off on account...