Word: nina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NINA RAE CLEVELAND San Francisco...
Married. Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wal let, 23, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's comic-strip character be loved by millions; and Nina Clock, 22, his boyhood sweetheart; both for the first time; in Gasoline Alley...
Fortnight ago Evita was at claws' point with Nina Cascallar, the favorite of one Captain Villegas, Argentine Federal Interventor of National Radios. Their tiff occurred on one of Argentina's national holidays, when so many government officials made patriotic speeches that Radio Belgrano, Buenos Aires' most popular broadcasting station, fell behind schedule. Nina, who goes on the air nightly ten minutes before Evita, wanted to be heard, although her time had already overlapped her rival's. But a Belgrano official let the Colonel's lady have...
Captain Villegas, who got a tearful earful from Nina, waited until Colonel Perón left town last week for an inspection trip in Cordoba Province. Then one night, shortly before Evita was scheduled to go on the air as star of My Kingdom For Love, a version of the Elizabeth-Essex romance, someone in the control room switched on the microphone prematurely. Listeners all over Argentina heard the announcer say: "That tart...
...Warrens changed the mansion into a gleaming monument to the gingerbread era in American architecture, filled its spacious, high-ceilinged rooms with rollicking laughter which had not been heard there for decades. The Warren family is self-sufficient. The Governor and his wife (the former Mrs. Nina Palmquist Meyers, a widow, whom he married in 1925) have never entertained much. Mrs. Warren explains: "I had five children in six years, and you can't do much entertaining then...