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Rationed Britain got good news about its food supply last week. Last month bushy-browed, eagle-beaked Minister of Food Frederick James Marquis, Baron Woolton, promised that rationing would be relaxed. Last week he explained his promise: U.S. food is pouring into Britain. U.S. Lend-Lease supplies now provide Britain...
There is nothing wrong with his age, says Father (Adolphe Menjou), that Leslie Collier (Miss Swanson) can't cure; so de la Falaise, Marquis de la Coudraye, in 1925, she became the first Hollywood actress to enter London and Paris society, which found her "less like an actress and...
* This phrase is an echo from the great cave at Altamira, Spain, where the Marquis of Sautuola first found and recognized prehistoric paintings in 1879. Altamira is commonly called "the Sistine Chapel of Magdelanian art," representing a Paleolithic culture about 10,000 years later than Montignac.
Died. The Marquis de Rochambeau, 75, a vice president of the Sons of the American Revolution, direct descendant of the general whom Louis XVI dispatched in 1780 to command the French armies supporting the American Revolution; in his family chateau near Saint-Gaultier, France.
Died. Dom José Telles da Gama, Marquis of Niza and Count of Vidigueira, 64, last direct descendant of the great Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama; in Lisbon.