Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to coordinate their tactics more closely. In the Constituent Assembly the Communist-Socialist coalition was maneuvering to give the Fourth Republic a constitution that would make an all-powerful legislature and a weak executive. De Gaulle had insisted that France needed a stronger administration on the U.S. constitutional model. The same left-wing coalition again insisted that military appropriations be cut 20% in favor of reconstruction funds. De Gaulle had argued that France, in a "tense" world, needed more armed strength...
Edgar Bergen, no dummy, got another marriage license seven months after he wed Model Frances Westerman in Mexico, got set for a full-fashioned church wedding in California to make his mother-in-law happy...
Anita ("The Face") Colby, ex-Cover Girl No. 1, was named "the most beautiful woman in America." Picker: publicity-wise Harry Conover, Manhattan model-peddler. Also named: 1) Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara, "the perfect-feature girl;" 2) Ingrid Bergman (who acts for David Selznick, who employs Miss Colby as adviser), "the prettiest woman on the screen...
...Madrid, the present Duke of Alba is awaiting the result of his order to exhume the 13th Duchess of Alba in order to solve two 143-year-old mysteries: 1) did she die of poison? 2) was she the model for Goya's famed nude...
Lose a Million. With some of his cash, he decided to go into the aviation business. It was not a whim: he had faith in its money-making future. He formed the Viking Flying Boat Co. to build sport-model seaplanes. The depression wiped out the market for seaplanes, along with most of Gross's million. He went to the West Coast to work for an airline. Gross was mightily impressed by the line's fast, sleek plywood Orions. They were made by Lockheed, which had been started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead...