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...with even one lone survivor of 1869 in line, but it was primarily the day for uniforms, bands, and hilarity. Following 1914, the class of '19, wearing red and white striped blazers, marched behind a four-horse tallyho, and '24, dressed as toreadors, had a steam calliope which played "Ferdinand the Bull...
...have long clamored for lower Canal tolls and representation on the Board of Directors, chiefly because Italy spends big money on Suez tolls to maintain communication with Italian East Africa. Lately Italy has been trying to lend weight to its demands with the somewhat irrelevant assertion that not only Ferdinand de Lesseps, but three obscure Italian engineers planned and dug the ditch. Their names: Negrelli, Torelli and Paleocapa...
Eighteen months ago the trust-busting division of the Department of Justice got its ears pinned back by crusty Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger. When he found out that the Department was quietly discussing a consent decree with big finance companies and automobile manufacturers while a grand jury at Milwaukee was mailing an anti-trust investigation of motormakers' financing relationships, he denounced such shenanigans, summarily discharged the grand jury...
...pursuing his and Hollywood's newfound enthusiasm for history, bouncing little Producer Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century-Fox has landed on some sensitive toes: descendants of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps (whose wives and children were not accounted for in Suez), Jesse James, admirers of Alexander Graham Bell. Last month cinemaddicts who saw Producer Zanuck's Rose of Washington Square, in which Alice Faye redeems her swindler husband, Tyrone Power, by singing My Man from a Ziegfeld stage, wondered whether his foot had not slipped again (TIME, May 15). For My Man was introduced in 1920 by Ziegfeld...
Official slogan of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's adherents during Spain's recent war was Una, Grande, Libre ("One, Great, Free"), a slogan borrowed from the great Ferdinand and Isabella. Last week Generalissimo Franco held his thrice-postponed Madrid victory parade and showed the world that Spain was great-at least in arms and men-but not necessarily "one" or "free...