Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife wanted to go bowling that evening, so Henry Toy Jr., a Du Pont executive, went to the Parent-Teacher Association meeting himself. He learned a thing or two. The public school in Oak Grove, Del., where his five-year-old son went, was so crowded that the kids had to wait in line to get into the bathroom. Were conditions that bad in other Delaware schools? He learned that they were generally far worse...
Though fiery-tempered old Leonor drove many a military wolf away from her girls, she never had to bother about a taciturn sergeant named Antonio del Rioarmenta. He was in love with young Adelita, but he was too shy to tell anyone about it. Instead he wrote a song for her, working out the tune on his harmonica. In the hospital train at Aguascalientes one day, he sang...
...Marimón is a man of means. He runs an undertaking business, smokes big cigars, campaigns against Perón, and races automobiles. In Buenos Aires one midnight last month, Domingo stepped on the starter of his 1939 Chevrolet and waited for the Gran Premio de la America del Sur to begin. So did 137 other drivers * in their Fords, Chevies and a sprinkling of Plymouths, Nashes and Buicks. At the signal, they roared off into the night...
Born. To Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 22, only child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid
Coming here in 1916 from Tunkhanock, Pa., and Exeter, Del Leighton was forced to leave in his sophomore year for service in France. After discharge, he matriculated for six months and was given his degree in 1919. The first job he took was in a textile mill in Rhode Island, putting a glass on cloth. That ended when the mill shut down. Next he tried selling Addresograph machines, but soon hied back to Cambridge and to the Business School. It was while there that Dean Greenough asked him to become one of his assistant deans. His interest in economics...