Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After her year-old son, Benjamin Briggs Goodrich, was christened in San Antonio's St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland (Mrs. Marcus Goodrich) announced that little Ben was to grow up to be a Supreme Court Justice "because justice is so important in the world...
Renaissance Sculptor Antonio Filarete completed the massive central doors of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome more than five centuries ago. His bronze doors were flanked, somewhat incongruously, by plain oak ones-and have been ever since. Last week the Vatican got around to the flanking doors, commissioned two traditionalist Italian sculptors named Alfredo Biagini and Venanzo Crocetti to replace them with bronze bas-reliefs celebrating the history of the church. Critics mildly approved the Vatican's conservative choices, raised a chorus of hurrahs when they learned that it had also commissioned Giacomo Manzu, a controversial modern...
Three Times Through. Bell cabled: "Lieut. Colonel Gines Perez of San Antonio, Texas, fought the war out here from 1942 to 1945. A mild-looking man with glasses who, like so many other such commanders, doesn't look like a military man, Colonel Perez had his battalion strung out on the road from Kwangju to Angang. For a while, South Korean troops were on his right. Then suddenly, one night, they weren't. The battalion was surrounded and had to fight its way out. That's routine enough. What was unusual about the weird action was that...
...Antonio, Bataan's General Jonathan Wainwright (ret.), 67, was pleased to receive a check from Uncle Sam for $1,210 - $1 for each day he spent in Japanese prison camps. Said Hero Wainwright: "I'll use it to pay my income tax with...
...Antonio Albertondo, 31, an Argentine brewery clerk...