Word: milos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Venus de Milo was back at her old stand in Paris, after six years of wartime exile. Fresh from a castle in Valencay (with a smudge on her nose), she was uncrated and hoisted into her place in the Louvre...
Facing bankruptcy, Martin Bekins thought up, built and personally operated a covered van which proved unexpectedly successful. In 1904, he introduced the first motorized van. When Sjoerd's grand son Milo (now 53, senior family member, and president of California Bekins) was ready to go to work in 1919, he had an already flourishing business to develop...
Tall, grey, imaginative Milo Bekins has consistently paced his cousins, now running the other three companies, but not in a win-or-die fashion. Everything is for the good of the family...
...Milo is not sure the thing will work. But he has bucked odds before...
Arleen Whelan, 28, flame-haired, green-eyed stage & screen starlet and ex-manicurist, got undivided attention from a committee of 65 illustrators, who awarded her a wellrounded, unequivocal title: "the most perfect all-over beauty of all time." Runner-up: the Venus de Milo...