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...ORA M. WILLIAMS Takoma Park...
Being a baroness was never enough to satisfy ambitious Daisy von Freyberg. At the age of 18 she took on a stage name, Daisy D'Ora, and became one of the more curvesome ornaments of Germany's silver screen. The international film Almanac of 1931 listed her as a "young lover" type, and that same year blonde Baroness Daisy earned still another title: Miss Germany. Sought after by the great and powerful in the twin worlds of Art and Fashion, Daisy in 1932 gave up her own career to marry a wealthy and successful young diplomat named Oskar...
Name-Dropper. In New Orleans, Mrs. Ora Baker became suspicious when her husband began calling her "Amanda" three days after their marriage, on checkup found that Amanda was his California wife...
...Guatemalans have no spunk!" gibed Señora Arbenz. Four months later, by way of answer, Arbenz and 13 others shot down the commander of Guatemala City's Guardia de Honor fort, won over the garrison and began shelling the capital's other two forts. A lucky hit on a powder magazine won the day spectacularly for Arbenz & friends. He and Colonel Francisco Javier Arana got a democratic constitution written and ran off a free election. It was won handily by Juan José Arévalo, a Guatemalan intellectual just back from exile in Argentina...
...haven't been able to touch Godfrey," and begged his public to remember that Godfrey "rates the patience of the audience because any doctor will tell you that no man is emotionally stable until a year after an operation such as the one Arthur went through." Colonel Ora Young, regional administrator of the CAA, who received the protest from Glass, promised reporters that he would do his duty, that he had written Godfrey and was patiently awaiting an answer, but that he did not think anyone -"especially a man of Mr. Godfrey's standing"-would deliberately...