Word: bassette
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month, Webb moved his old gun collection, his $135 sports jackets, his portable typewriter and Dudley, his bassett hound, into a $100,000 ultramodern two-bar house, high in Beverly Hills' celebrity-studded Coldwater Canyon. Last week he had the house up for sale. In his intense and single-minded haste to go on conquering Hollywood, he has not even found time to use his swimming pool. "Jack," says Stanley Meyer, the protocol-conscious business manager of Webb's Mark VII Productions, "would live in one room with a cot and a movie projector...
...fashionable and distinguished-looking Londoner, Mrs. John R. Bassett, found a Christmas note from her son in the mail one day last week. This commonplace occurrence made headlines all over Britain, for Mrs. Bassett is the mother of Guy Burgess, the young British diplomat who disappeared behind the Iron Curtain more than two years ago with his foreign-office colleague, Donald MacLean...
...note, dated November and written in ink in a hand positively identified as Guy's by Mrs. Bassett, was the first tangible evidence that Burgess is still alive. Beyond that fact, it proved nothing. Written on British stationery and enclosed in an envelope postmarked "Dec. 21, London, S.E. 1," the note might have been written anywhere and mailed by any one of thousands wandering the streets of southeast London that day. Two Soviet cargo ships were tied up in London at the time, and the Waterloo Airways Terminal is part of the postal district in which the letter...
...interim" world featherweight (126 Ibs.) championship was settled last week in Paris. With the champion, Pvt. Sandy Saddler, as a ringside spectator, Philadelphia Negro Percy Bassett pounded France's Ray Famechon into submission with a fourth-round technical knockout. Famechon was not the only loser. French bookies, who backed their favorite against the weight of the money bet at the fight, lost an estimated 800 million francs ($2,288,000) on the fight...
...working lieutenant governor. Alexis Bayard's father, Thomas Bayard, was a U.S. Senator. So were his grandfather, Thomas Bayard Sr., his great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Jr., his great-uncle, Richard Henry Bayard, his great-great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Sr., and his great-great-great-grandfather, Richard Bassett (who was also a member of the Constitutional Convention). Thomas Bayard Sr., also was U.S. Minister to the Court of St. James's when it was presided over by Victoria, daughter of a ruling house somewhat junior to the Bayards of Delaware. There is nothing like the Bayards...