Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grip of a handsome Hungarian hussar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). "It wasn't exactly down my alley," Betty confesses, "and it looked as if it might have been pretty hard for me to do." But the late Ernst Lubitsch, the director whose magic made exquisite comedy of Jeanette MacDonald's look of bovine bewilderment in such musicals as The Love Parade and The Merry Widow, probably had some good idea what he was about when he picked Betty (Lubitsch died before it was finished and Director Otto Preminger took over). Betty plays a sort of royal compound of Russia...
Western Hospitality. Balloting for the leadership came last on the program, and by that time most of the opposition to Louis St. Laurent had faded away. After playing coy for two days, Nova Scotia Premier Angus L. Macdonald withdrew. Health Minister Paul Martin reluctantly got on the St. Laurent bandwagon. The Peck's Bad Boy of the Liberal Party, onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, never had a chance, and wound up with just 56 votes...
...Singapore, Malcolm MacDonald, Governor General of British South-East Asia, charged that the wave of terrorism was "part of a deliberate plan by Malayan Communists to ... capture by force the government of the country." He accused the Reds of attempting to rule "not by a majority of votes, but by a majority of guns...
...which should be solid for Manitoba's own Premier Stuart Garson (said to be Mackenzie King's choice for leader a few years hence). Nor can Gardiner count on the Maritime provinces' 186 votes, which are now destined for a favorite son, Premier Angus Macdonald...