Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentina's Minister of Education, Dr. Oscar Ivanissevich has a habit of dropping into classrooms around the country to deliver homespun lectures on the greatness of his boss, President Juan Perón. Last week, in a broadcast aimed at all the nation's schools, Ivanissevich outdid himself...
...home, she is the kind of girl of whom one friend says: "She could fill Covent Garden every night in the week for a year, but she could walk through Picadilly Circus with a neon light around her head without one person saying, "There goes Margot Fonteyn.' " She has a flat just a block from Covent Garden, filled with period furniture ("mixed") and porcelain cats, spends much of her free time with her mother, a striking, silver-haired woman whom Margot and her friends have nicknamed "The Black Queen...
Handkerchiefs came out of purses and dabbed at eyes. Then one woman proposed a moment of silence; all the guests stood up. A few minutes later, weeping clubwomen clustered around an easel on which was displayed one of the last cartoons Helen Hokinson had drawn, a gift to the fund drive. The caption ("So Mary's working for the Community Chest too. How brave!") seemed an oddly suitable epitaph for Cartoonist Hokinson, who had died in the worst crash in U.S. airline history (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...earnings slipped from $4,048,403 in 1946 to $1,415,869 last year. For the first nine months of this year, Rexall reported a loss of $1,167,125. For the full year, Dart estimated last week, the loss would be cut, though it would still be around $500,000. Said Dart: "We knew that trouble was coming-but we didn't realize it would hit us so fast...
Venus' husband, Vulcan, was a good guy and the god of fire besides, but he was so jealous he couldn't stand to have her out of his sight; his idea of fun for his lovely bride was to have her hang around his forge while he pounded out odd jobs. Anyone but a god would have known that a Venus was bound...