Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What bothered Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., was the sponsor who was getting the cooperation...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier...
...Korean beer issue mandatory. Then the Blatz Brewing Co. of Milwaukee sent the Secretary of the Army a telegram offering 600,000 cans of beer absolutely free of charge. Not to be outdone, the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. offered several vatfuls of free beer, too. At that, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., rose in Denver before the 76th convention of her sisterhood to launch a heated counterattack...
...Britons could depend on help from guerrillas and from intelligence corpsmen hidden in the hills. One British agent, a Cretan, actually lived next door to General Kreipe's Villa Ariadne, near the north coast. Through him, Moss and Leigh-Fermor learned the general's daily routine to a nicety-off to headquarters by car at 9 a.m., back in the evening any time after 8 or 8:30 p.m., depending on how many rubbers of bridge he stayed to play...
...quickly became resigned and quite amiable) was rnarched from cave to cave half the length of Crete, while the furious Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive and captors, Moss and Leigh-Fermor knew that they had achieved their principal aim-to astound the enemy and make him the laughingstock of the local population...