Word: m
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important milestone of postwar history, but the proceedings were cut & dried, the speeches were dull, and most of the delegates looked as though they were thinking about lunch. M. Jacques Dumaine, the French government's elegant chief of protocol, stole the show. Bowing from the hips, gracefully waving his hands and toying with a monocle (made of plain glass), he ran off the signing in 25 minutes...
Leggy Lauren Bacall took a look at her part in The Girl from Jones Beach, and said no: "I'm not a bathing beauty; I'd be embarrassed." Warner's promptly suspended her salary...
Jacob Sechler Coxey, who 54 years ago led "Coxey's Army" of unemployed to Washington (and got arrested for failing to keep off the grass), reached 94 in Massillon, Ohio, announced: "I'm going to live to be a hundred...
...succeeded Robert M. Hutchins in the job almost three years ago. Hutchins stepped up to the specially created post of chancellor, which makes him still boss...
...said he, "we haven't had one for ages. I love babies." Mamma, who had to run the household on 250 francs a month, said coldly: "So you're glad for me to bring another poor wretch into the world?" And Papa replied: "Of course I'm glad. It'll be a boy this time, he'll be born in 1900, beginning his life with a world's fair...