Word: duff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania is Governor Edward Martin, who is out to oust Democratic Boss Joe Guffey from his U.S. Senate seat. G.O.P. chances, already high thanks to Martin's popularity, were enhanced last week by the party's choice for the Governorship race: able Attorney General James H. Duff...
Born. To Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ("Glamor Girl") Kelly, 24, whose raven-haired, cream-smooth beauty helped to make her 1938's No. 1 debutante; and John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 35, onetime part-owner of professional football's Brooklyn Dodgers: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Brenda Victoria. Weight...
...Alfred Duff Cooper, impeccable British Ambassador to France, gave a peccant Riviera innkeeper a nice demonstration of the retort diplomatic. The Ambassador, his Lady, and a motoring party of six friends lunched at the inn, got a bill for 16,000 francs (about $320). The Ambassador wrote his name on the bill, tucked it in an envelope addressed to the regional authority on price control, and called the headwaiter. "Would you be so kind as to send this," he murmured, arose, and departed...
...brand-new Lady Rothermere. Bewitching in the rose straw hat the Duchess of Westminster had brought her from Paris, she gave a party at the Dorchester to hear the election returns - and the news was a Labor sweep. Almost worse was the arrival of Lady Diana Duff Cooper, fresh from Paris, wearing an exact duplicate of the rose straw...
...While the Allies and Germany were still righting a "phony war" and R.A.F. pilots were dropping nothing more harmful on Germany than big bundles of Alfred Duff Cooper's M.O.I, propaganda pamphlets. British pilots allegedly cautioned one another: "Be sure to take the strings off the bundles-you might hurt somebody...