Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stopped a passing cyclist and sent him for the gendarmerie in Forcalquier, seven miles away. The cops failed at first to identify the dead; there were no passports or other papers. Then they found a child's exercise book. On the cover was written: Name: Elizabeth Drummond Form III. Subject: Summer Holiday. Parent: Jack Drummond...
...Incompatibility." Adlai Stevenson married Ellen Borden, one of Chicago's most attractive debutantes, on Dec. 1, 1928. They have three sons, Adlai III, 21 (recently enlisted in the Marines); Borden, 20; and John Fell, 16. In 1949, less than a year after Stevenson became governor of Illinois, his wife sued for divorce. The unhappy governor told reporters: "Although I don't believe in divorce, I will not contest it ... Due to the incompatibility of our lives, Mrs. Stevenson feels a separation is necessary...
...lighting effects rather than scenery, and his sets contained a minimum of props. Act I was furnished with a single couch for Isolde (not a sign of the usual sail or sailors); there was no castle in Act II and none of the customary trees in Act III. The stage sloped so steeply that Tristan on his couch almost seemed in danger of rolling into the orchestra...
Island Rescue (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) has a real Venus for its leading lady. She is a goddess among cows, a triumph of scientific breeding, and she lives on the Channel island of Armorel. Since Venus is in calf by champion bull Mars of Mellowbury III, the expected progeny is of vital concern to the British Ministry of Agriculture...
...III. Thou shalt not take thy husband's name in vain...