Word: latour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antonio Latour, one of Mr. Wright's heroes, was once an actor, then retired to be the harmless reprobate of his native Midwestern small town. He had loved, but in vain, Harriet Noel?she who might have been one of the world's great actresses had it not been for her villain husband and her darling son, for whose future stage career she gladly sacrificed her own. Young son Pierre, too soon an orphan, had been brought up by old Tony to fulfill his mother's dreams...
...five continents. Inside the former Herrenhaus met delegates from 45 nations to the Olympic Congress. They talked all week, making plans and taking cognizance of plans already carried out for the Tenth Olympic Games, to be held in Los Angeles in 1932.* Women's Events. Count Baillet-Latour, French delegate and President of the Congress, proposed that women be excluded from track, field and fencing events. Other delegates, mainly U. S. and German, rose in debate. The Count supported his proposal by reminding the Congress of the 800-metre event for women at Amsterdam in 1928, in which several...