Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel, La Reine des Pommes, a roman noir or dark-toned crime story that was hailed by Author Jean Giono as "the most extraordinary novel I have read in a long time," and praised by Jean Cocteau as "a prodigious masterpiece." Sculptor Harold Cousins, from Washington, D.C., has lived nine years in Paris, sold a sculpture last month to the Claude Bernard Gallery, and has been commissioned by Susse, the famed bronze caster, to do a mobile. Painter Beauford Delaunay, from Tennessee, lives in a small cottage in suburban Clamart and exhibits his work at the avant-garde Facchetti Gallery...
...fact, the Class of '61 holds down ten positions on the first two units, the coach stated. "It's not just a few good sophs, but the number out for the team." Twenty-nine of the fifty-five man squad have two years of eligibility after this season...
...local regulations as to the number of seats that they can sell. Brazil restricts Pan Am to 430 seats a week (a figure set years ago) while major Brazilian airlines, Varig and Real, run without quotas. Some ten years ago Pan Am and Panagra were two out of nine companies servicing Latin America; today the total...
...into national banking. First National (total deposits: $724.8 million) made the first move, upped its capital and surplus from $51.1 million to $60 million, allowing it to lend $6,000,000 at a crack. But then Florence's Republic (total deposits: $798.4 million), for the ninth time in nine years, boosted its own capital and surplus from $87 million to $100 million, jumping its single loan authority to $10 million. Republic's new total resources: $948 million, v. First National's $817 million...
About those cigars. The book discloses to the world that Churchill smoked them only halfway: it was Norman's duty to collect the halves and take them in a special box to Kearns, one of the Chartwell gardeners, who smoked them in his pipe. Churchill smoked only nine cigars a day, says Norman, on the defensive about his guv'nor's habits, but he admits they were strong enough to make Prince Georg of Denmark (a nonsmoker) violently sick after three puffs. As for whisky. Churchill was always at it. But Norman explains that the mixture (with...