Word: kins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Viscount Montgomery's in the city's Gold Book. Then came a civic reception, and that afternoon the visitor was whisked out to the Blue Bonnets racetrack for the running of the big sixth race, renamed in his honor. The winning jockey was a namesake (but no kin) of Maurice Chevalier, which was fitting, because the man who handed him the winner's plaque was the latest homme fatal from France, 40-year-old Troubadour Jean Sablon...
...original 3,000 men and 6,000 replacements collected eight unit citations, one Medal of Honor, 3.600 Purple Hearts and a thousand other decorations. They lived up to their motto, "Go for Broke":*no less than 650 of the Purple Hearts had to be sent to next of kin (many of them in relocation centers) because the soldiers were dead. The 442nd also set an unbeatable mark for soldierly behavior; no man in the outfit had ever deserted...
...collaborationist, mainly because he kept his factories running during the war and did not support the Czech Government in exile. So he will probably not be paid for his 40% interest in Bata. There are still Bata factories in England and Canada, controlled by Bata's kin. But he claims that the U.S. plant which he built at Belkamp, Md. and which was operated by the Alien Property Custodian during the war no longer belongs to him (just who owns it is a cooperative mystery...
...Named after, but no kin to, the late great U.S. journalist...
Martha Scott went to Las Vegas, Nev. to divorce her husband, Radio Announcer Carlton Alsop (no kin to Columnists Joseph & Stewart Alsop...