Word: junes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple were vague about their future plans. A honeymoon? Well-Aly volunteered that he hoped to attend the Derby at Epsom Downs on June 4. Rita planned to start work on a new film by the end of the year. Back at the party, Rita sank down next to the old Aga Khan. "Too much caviar, Rita," he murmured, "too much caviar." International News Service's starry-eyed Louella Parsons heaved a final sigh. The groom, she reported, "wearying but still buoyant, dropped on one knee and, with old-world gallantry, kissed her [Rita's] slipper...
...Europe's displaced persons. Last week, Church World Service, an overseas relief agency for 20 Protestant and three Eastern Orthodox denominations, took a decisive step to make up the deficit: it launched a campaign to arouse Protestant interest in the plight of Europe's homeless. Designating June as "D.P. Action Month," C.W.S. asked each member church to join in furnishing the assurance of job, housing and transportation from port of arrival which the law requires before D.P.s can embark for America. For June C.W.S. set its goal at 18,000 new "assurances," more than fivefold...
This spring, some tipplers got a trifle careless: they started throwing empty bottles out the windows. The administration decided to clean up. First, the university's special police raided a beer party at the Deke house, and the chapter house was ordered closed from June 15 to next February. Then, the cops attended the Sigma Phi spring formal, nabbed ten couples (of the 50 couples at the dance) drinking white wine in the basement...
Tongg, a crack skeet-shooter, had taken only a few potshots at established island businesses. But in 1946, he aimed deliberately at thriving, island-hopping Hawaiian Airlines (TIME, June 21). With four DC-35 he started unscheduled Trans-Pacific Airlines, which flew regularly enough to haul 10,000 inter-island passengers a month during the first year. By 1947, Ruddy managed to gross $103,000 and net $35,000 in one month. That was too much for Hawaiian Air. It got an injunction to keep Ruddy from flying on schedules; Ruddy's business dropped...
...Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. and Director John Huston labored over production logistics, the script, casting, and selection of thousands of costumes and props. The picture was on the schedules of Elizabeth Taylor, Walter Huston and Peck himself, who was to finish a film for 20th Century-Fox on June 15 and fly straight to Rome...