Word: czars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Football Czar Oscar Nicolini (who is also Argentina's director of Post & Telegraphs) was no man to suffer such a rebuke in silence. Promptly he called a meeting of the powerful governing body, AFA (Asociación de Futbol Argentina'). To teach the players a stern lesson, AFA voted to wash out the rest of the season...
...since 1941, when his mother gave him a 51? racket for Christmas. School never interested him much ("If it was a warm day and the fellows said 'Let's go to the beach,' who was I to say no?"). Though Perry Jones, the Southern California tennis czar, looked askance, he quit high school in 1943 and then did a hitch in the Navy. He finally played his way back into Jones's good graces-and the tournament bids, expense money and coaching that go with them...
...Economic Czar Miguel Miranda's mammoth Institute Argentino de Promoción del Intercambio had at last published a financial statement. Anyhow, that is what Miranda called...
French ballet glowed dimly under Napoleon, who wasn't much interested (although he took a troupe with him to Egypt). But when Czar Paul asked for a ballet master to teach his gawky but willing subjects, Paris taught St. Petersburg to shine. Now, in its "old age," Paris' Opera Ballet is supported by the French state. Youngsters-ules petits rats de I'Opéra Ballet"-are wards of the government, get their elementary schooling with their pirouettes. Before the company goes back to start its packed performances at home next month, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond...
Died. Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 87, ex-Czar of Bulgaria; in Coburg, Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS...