Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Gertrude Lawrence, 42, sparkling, British-born comedienne; and Richard Stoddard Aldrich, 37, theatrical producer; both for the second time; in Dennis, Mass., where Actress Lawrence was playing in Aldrich's Cape Playhouse...
During 50 years at sea the Doctor fought, or rather butchered, at Cape Saint Vincent, Copenhagen, Trafalgar, Rochefort and many another action, most of which he was moved to describe in the course of telling about his leg. He sailed for prizes from the West Indies station during the American Revolution, he shipped on a slaver, he was captured by the Mounseers (on that occasion contriving to be the only man ever guillotined at the knee). His modest knowledge of physic was of assistance to the great Franklin, the great Linnaeus, and Catherine the Great, who conceived a dangerous gratitude...
...selling more units than either long-entrenched Victor or Columbia, its chief rivals. Whatever Decca's quantity, the quality of Decca's popular recordings remains outstanding in the business. And last month's Decca list feathered Jack Kapp's cap as never before. From the Cape of Good Hope to the Pacific coast and on around to the Bosporus, Decca had collected a rich variety of old and new music of the people, by the people and - at 35? a crack - for a good many people. Album items: Songs of the South African Veld, sung...
...Britain will maintain her oil supply no U. S. oilmen knew for sure last week. With Norway's tanker fleet to add to her own, she may well run shipments from the Iranian fields around the Cape of Good Hope, stand the extra expense of the long haul rather than spend exchange in the Western Hemisphere. But Standard Oil's (N. J.) big refinery in Aruba, Royal Dutch Shell's huge plant in Curaçao, both in the Dutch West Indies, with a haul almost three times shorter to British ports, may also be in line...
...history of Portugal became a kaleidoscopic cavalcade of conquest, exploration, staggering defeat, decline, intrigue and adversity. With barely 1,500,000 inhabitants, by Papal Bull Portugal in 1494 divided the entire world with Spain, drawing an imaginary line from the North to the South Pole 370 leagues west of Cape Verde and leaving all land discovered west of it to Spain, while taking all to the east for herself...