Word: masted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cops suspected of playing a double or triple game-informing not only for the French in Indo-China, but also for Ho Chi-Minh's Communists, and possibly checking on Ho for Moscow. The informer in turn told police that he got the report from General Charles Emmanuel Mast, onetime Resident-General in Tunisia, since 1947 on the inactive list...
...Political Successor. Questioned, General Revers made a damaging admission: he had given the text of the report to General Mast. In his turn, Mast admitted that he had passed it on to the informer. In Paris last week, fellow officers reasoned that, in handing out the report which was critical of French cabinet ministers, General Revers had probably been playing one of his political tricks; it was known that he had also given the report to several politicians and officials...
...offered a part last month, but ... I was too busy," mused photogenic Maureen O'Sullivan, 38, onetime movie mate of Tarzan and wife of Director John Farrow (Two Years Before the Mast) as she posed for a picture in Hollywood with 6-month-old daughter Stephanie (see cut), her sixth child. "Perhaps when the children are all grown I'll become a character actress...
...biggest of all the big houses on Swiss Avenue. He built three papier-máché camels, 24 sheep, nine shepherds, one cow, and the figures of the Three Wise Men and Mary and the Infant Jesus. He mounted the Star of Bethlehem on a 50-ft. steel mast and built a manger. Then he turned on the lights, and the public-address system put out Christmas carols...
...last time. Escorted by the British destroyer Finisterre and the sloop Redpole, and loaded with 150 tons of carefully secured ballast, she was towed out of Portsmouth Harbor, past the moored Victory; 28 miles out, she was cast adrift. Her escorts' colors fluttered to half-mast, a guard of bluejackets aboard the Finisterre presented arms, and the bugler sounded last post. Then, at a signal from Rear Admiral Sir Algernon Willis, a charge of cordite blew the Implacable's bottom to smithereens...