Word: capris
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...Harrison Williams, famed for her just-so hair, parties and clothes, lost her Micky, the much-photographed beige mongrel that had constantly kept her company in all the best places. Micky, whom she picked up in Capri in the '303, died in Manhattan at the age of twelve (kidney trouble...
...Frenchmen, Italians and Spaniards. What with the original families and those who have immigrated across the southern border, the greatest portion of the Crescent City's white population is of Latin origin. It creeps into their music now and again, often very effectively. Mannone's old "Isle of Capri" or his newer "O Sole Mio," Bob Crosby's "Palesteena" or "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans," are examples of jazz somewhat on the Nespolitan side...
Jinx Falkenburg, cover girl turned actress, and now Mrs. John R. ("Tex") McCrary, expecting "any day in July," swore to do right by her offspring. "If it's a girl I'll call it Capri," said she. "Anyway, I won't use a name like Jinx...
...Minister of War began to build up the almost-all-conquering Wehrmacht; of a heart attack; in Nürnberg. In 1938, ostensibly because he married his "socially impossible" stenographer, ardent Nazi von Blomberg lost his job at the insistence of the Officer Corps, spent World War II on Capri in retirement...
...press Army trucks and planes rush copies north to our troops at the front (22,000 copies go this way, and 13,000 of these are given away). Other copies are loaded into ATC planes bound for Corsica and Sardinia, and still others travel south to Naples and Capri and on to Taranto. Bundles of several hundred copies each are flown by air courier to MTOUSA (Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army) and MAAF (Mediterranean Army Air Forces) and 15th Army Group Headquarters, while still other copies are delivered to Army Post Exchanges, Red Cross clubs and restcamps throughout...