Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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* Race-track French. Havre de Grace (Harbor of Grace) got its name during the American Revolution, when the Marquis de Lafayette decided that the setting, at the mouth of the Susquehanna, reminded him of France's Le Havre.
Under him, the bureau became one of the best in Washington. Besides Ross, it included crusading Paul Y. Anderson (who won the Pulitzer Prize for articles exposing the Teapot Dome scandal), Raymond P. ("Pete") Brandt, now head of the P-D bureau, and Marquis Childs.
Two ballet companies are in town. For entertainment to suit even non-ballet taste, Les Ballets de Paris (National, 41st W.) is offering several new works. Marquis de Cuevas' Grand Ballet (Century, Seventh Ave. and 59th) offers a large variety of classical ballet.
Your readers will be interested in what the Marquis Arturo della Scala, scion of one of Italy's oldest families and well-known lawyer, said to me in Rome last month . . .: ''If America wants to defend the liberty of Western Europe (and of the Western World), it...
People's Platform (Sun. 12:30 p.m., CBS). "Is American Foreign Policy Sound?" with John Foster Dulles and Marquis Childs.