Word: guested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, 48, swank-loving, smart-alecking Conservative M.P., who in 1938 claimed half of his estranged wife's $400,000 income, later divorced her for adultery, was blasted for "beachcombing in Honolulu" during the blitz as guest of Doris Duke Cromwell; and Angela Williams, daughter of a British Naval Commander; in London...
...President always heeds the campaign advice of New York's shrewd little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. Last week "The Hat," as he is known in New York, was a White House luncheon guest. A few hours later, in Manhattan, bumbling Bob Hannegan, Democratic national chairman, announced that the President would tour New York City. Said Hannegan: "After the people have seen him, they can make up their own minds about his vigor and health...
...fans is so fanatical that his fan mail (85% from girls and women) is extraordinary even by radio-cinema standards. Eddy's concert tours sell out way in advance, and he averages $15,000 a week from them. His radio salary is $5,000 a week, not including guest appearances. Another $60,000 to $80,000 a year accrues from his phonograph recordings, at least four of which have sold over a million discs apiece. With his movie income, his total earnings to date are about...
Four weeks after the armistice with Russia, war-drained Finland was still trying to throw out the once-welcome German guest. Russia joined in at the Arctic Ocean to speed the parting. With Petsamo's nickel mines threatened by the Russian drive and a Lapland winter making up, the German determination to stick around was beginning to cool. Helsinki was still hopeful that it would be able to demobilize its soldiers by Dec. 5-the armistice deadline...
...Excellency, H. H. Kung, Vice-Premier of China and Minister of Finance, will be the guest of Harvard this afternoon between sessions of the Boston Conference on Distribution, which he is attending...