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Word: mamaroneck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mamaroneck. When Noel's play and his affair with Margie both turn out to be flops, he flees to Paris, but Margie follows him, still determined to lasso the cad with a wedding ring. Aboard ship she meets another charmer, Mike Eden, who has a bad case of nerves, but for good cause: he is playing Scarlet Pimpernel in Nazi Germany and smuggling out persecuted Jews. Still, Noel has a fatal hold on her, and she finally catches up with him, only to find him living with and off a lady photographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...openly courted trouble. Ever since Dictator Fulgencio Batista booted him out of Cuba, the well-heeled former President has been hard at work organizing a revolutionary comeback from his Miami mansion. The current charge grew out of a police raid last December on a vacant filling station at Mamaroneck, N.Y., near Long Island Sound. Stumbling on an impressive cache of grenades, bazooka shells and explosives, the cops arrested four men. One, a New York munitions dealer, said that the arms had been bought by a Cuban named José Duarte for the account of Carlos Prío. Duarte, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Under Arrest | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

After the Mamaroneck affair, the State Department passed word to Prío to be more careful and stop abusing U.S. hospitality. Too busy with his plotting, Prío brushed the hints aside. When the blow fell last week he had just returned from a meeting of opposition leaders in Mexico at which plans for an uprising were reportedly discussed. Prío, whose democratic but graft-ridden government collapsed in a few hours in March 1952, seemed angriest that his arrest would give "comfort and satisfaction to a dictator." If brought to trial and convicted, he could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Under Arrest | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...John's Lutheran Church Mamaroneck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...letter of credit. Manheim told police that he reported the deal to the U.S. State Department, and was instructed to "play along" until the plot was ripe. Over the months, he bought the surplus U.S. Army materiel and rented the gas station, only a grenade's throw from Mamaroneck Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Mamaroneck Plot | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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