Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Root of the Family Tree. In Coati-cook, Quebec, death came to 103-year-old Hubert Leclerc, who left 375 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren...
This week Publisher Allen was preparing a gala blowout in Laredo for Mexican Defense Minister ex-President Lazaro Car-lenas, on tour of Mexico war plants. Also invited were Lieut. General Walter Krueger, commanding the U.S. Third Army, the Air Forces' Major General Hubert Harmon, other military bigwigs...
This is right in the insouciant mood of his sponsor. Grief is sometimes inevitable at Forest Lawn, but never welcome. There "no signs of sorrow linger." This was the vision that came 25 years ago to a young engineer, Hubert Eaton, as he viewed with disfavor a debt-ridden, unprepossessing little necropolis he had been assigned to manage on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Promoter Eaton decided he would turn the 55-acre graveyard into "The Happy Cemetery." As a first step, he banned stones, substituted bronze markers laid level with the grass. Later he discarded the word cemetery...
...Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the Black Eagle of Harlem who once challenged Hermann Goring to an air duel, once cracked up Haile Selassie's plane at the royal feet, enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private. "My blood tests," he reported to the press, "came back perfect, negative, and excellent...
...Hubert Wilkins, bearded Arctic explorer, offered to reduplicate a stunt he described to an Idaho Falls lecture audience. Two lecture-goers had heard him say that, after a fall through the ice, he stripped in 40-below weather, dried his clothes with snow. The two dared him to do it again. Sir Hubert's price...