Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the eighth-floor U.S. embassy office in Buenos Aires' Boston Bank building, the telephone jangled. "Never mind the protocol," boomed the voice of Juan Perón, "come on over." After three months in Washington, big, breezy U.S. Ambassador James Bruce was back at his post. In answer...
Last week, as the two men sat down together again, it looked as if Perón had begun to take some of the ambassador's advice. The government had just announced that trade debts to U.S. banks, once over $300 million, had been cut to half that figure...
Actress Madeleine Carroll, 43 (Goodbye, My Fancy), was ready to go back to Paris to talk things over with third husband Henri Lavorel. "I hope for a settlement of our problems," she confided to a Manhattan gossip columnist, "but I want to reserve judgment until I see him."
But 23-year-old Frank Learoyd Boyden of Foxboro, Mass, did do. That fall of 1902, just out of Amherst himself, he took over the 103-year-old school, then partially town-supported, with its enrollment of 14 students. He taught every thing from Latin to math, coached athletics and...
At anniversary time, Frank Boyden had almost 500 boys and a campus that spread over the heart of old Deerfield. Most of his old New England colleagues (Horace Taft of Taft, Perry of Exeter, Claude Fuess of Andover, Endicott Peabody of Grotonj are dead or retired. Frank Boyden is the...