Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness chair stepped dapper Prince Xavier de Bourbon-Parme, cousin of Archduke Otto of Austria and an ex-inmate of Dachau concentration camp...
...been creeping back in the news. (Notable exception: flamboyant Jean Borotra, last reported under arrest as Vichy's ex-Sports Director.) This week Yvon Petra, a native of Indo-China, captured the French championship by defeating former Davis Cupper Bernard Destremeau, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. Then dapper little Henri Cochet, 45-year-old ace of the '20s, paired with Pierre Pellizza to win the doubles crown from Petra and Destremeau...
...Cried dapper ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, 66, who had been Pétain's predecessor: "I, like the rest of France, was fooled by the Marshal. ... He tried to destroy what remained of France's soul...
Dutch-descended Leonard Versluis, 47, is a dapper go-getter who made a fortune operating a chain of photographic studios in Michigan. In 1940, he built a station in Grand Rapids as a sideline, went on from there to the Wolverine Network, then last year blossomed out with...
Married. Alfred de Liagre Jr., 40, dapper, socialite Broadway producer-director (The Voice of the Turtle); and Mary Howard, 28, Kansas-born cinemactress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois); both for the first time; in Woodstock...