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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what he could do. By the narrowest margin in French parliamentary history, Moch had been approved by the Assembly, but he could not form a cabinet. It seemed that neither of the other two parties in the center coalition, the Radicals and Popular Republicans, wanted a Socialist premier. Then long-suffering M. Auriol called on the Radicals' René Mayer...
...bones actually were those of the last Aztec ruler, Eulalia Guzman packed up for another trip to Ixcateopan. The red-faced Bank of Mexico kept its own counsel. One question remained unsolved: Was the hoax the work of a 20th Century man, or had it been perpetrated by some long-forgotten 16th Century prankster...
Taking aim all the way from San Francisco, touring Soprano Lily Pons let fly: "New York City is a crowded, dirty madhouse." French-born Lily also knocked Paris fashions. "Zut," she sputtered, "first they are too long, now they are too short. I think the American women wear them best. Me, I'm too petite, always in the middle...
...staunchly opposed to change and that he tried to get that idea across in books like The Robe and The Big Fisherman. "I have only one theme," he said. "All authors have only one theme, though few will admit it. My theme, it happens, people like, because they long to stay...
...Said Arcaro later: "I rode up even with him and looked him in the eye. He looked right back at me, cold as you please-and first thing I knew I'd been beaten." Glisson won the $100,000-added Santa Anita Derby on Old Rockport, became the long-shot darling of the California bettors, then moved on to Kentucky and eventually New York...