Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of the wives, the transition from Levi's to Lanvins has been joltingly sudden. "There I was working in the oilfields," said Mrs. Bruno Graf of Dallas, "and the next thing I knew I was going all through Europe with all my diamonds and my personal maid." The oilionairesses tend to take their recreation in groups. Mrs. James Abercrombie of Houston and four of her friends call themselves "The Flying Five" and periodically take off in one of her husband's planes (with pilot and copilot) for a sightseeing jaunt in the Caribbean or somewhere. Mrs. Ralph...
...smart set slumming there one night. No sooner did Cholly break the news in his gossip column than the Peppermint Lounge became an instant fad. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford showed up. So did Porfirio and Odile Rubirosa, and Bill Zeckendorf Jr. and Judy Garland and the Bruno Pagliais (Merle Oberon), and Billy Rose, and Tennessee Williams, and William Inge. The word shot quickly over the mink-line to the Stork's Cub Room, El Morocco and the Harwyn Club. Inside of just a few weeks, virtually everybody who is anybody in café society had snapped...
...dialing MOhawk 7-8383 a maximum of 220 callers an hour can hear a message tied to the saint whose day it is. Sample: "Too many of us have never learned the love of solitude in today's busy world. Our hero for today, St. Bruno, rebukes our ceaseless activity in the midst of people." At the end comes a commercial: a short reminder that Dial-a-Saint is presented by George H. Lewis & Sons, funeral directors...
...Dominican priest named Father Bruno, whose dream it is to found a Roman Catholic institute for Jewish studies in Israel and who seeks Vatican permission to say his Mass in Hebrew and to hold the Mass on the Sabbath as well as on Sunday...
...which meant that the kidnaper would sooner or later have to turn in the gold certificates. On Sept. 15, 1934-a Manhattan gas station attendant noted a customer who sheepishly handed over a $10 gold certificate to pay for five gallons of gas. A German-born Bronx carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was quickly arrested. He denied his guilt, but in his garage police found $14,600 of the ransom money, and a slat in his attic flooring matched one section of the ladder wood that Arthur Koehler had analyzed...