Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France's pioneer aviators himself. "I'll never get tired of traveling," she wrote to a friend recently. Last week she was back at her job as stewardess of a huge Air France Constellation just making ready to come in for a landing at Azores' Santa Maria airfield. The sky around her ship was clear, and laced with invisible, ether-borne messages linking the plane and its 48 passengers to the earth below...
Silence. Six hours later, at 2:50 a.m., Suzanne's boss, veteran pilot Captain de la Noue, sent a message that soon lost its meaning: "Having accomplished first part of flight normally, ready to land in five minutes at Santa Maria. Weather clear...
Married. Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, 77, onetime U.S. ambassador to Portugal (1945-47) and The Netherlands (he resigned last month), goateed younger brother of Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch; and Anne Maria, Baroness Mackay, fortyish, Dutch socialite; he for the second time; in Wyandanch...
...Opera's General Manager Edward Johnson, some of his staff and stars) started right out applauding H. A. Condell's first-act scenery: his baroque boudoir, hung with Rubensian nudes, could hardly have been more apt. The Marschallin's monologue, sung by Vienna State Opera Star Maria Reining, had them clapping again. But the brightest successes were two U.S.-born girls. One was Virginia Haskins (Sophie), a pert, tiny soprano who made her first hits in the Chicago Opera Co. and on Broadway in Carousel. The other was a shy upstate New Yorker named Frances Bible...
After deciphering the document and verifying its authenticity, Dr. Eulalia Guzman, the National Museum's chief of historical research, led an expedition to Ixcateopan. There, beneath the altar of Santa Maria de Asuncion, diggers uncovered a huge stone slab with a large oval copper disc. Under a small cross at the top were the words Senor y Rey. Beneath them was the name Coatemo (one of the alternate spellings of Cuauhtemoc...