Word: parachutist
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...Harold Wilson and John Freeman, held their seats. So did the rest of the small camp of Bev-anites, including Sevan's own wife, Jennie Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Bevan are the only man & wife team in the House of Commons. ¶ In Plymouth, John Jacob Astor, parachutist son of a famed spitfire parliamentarian, Lady Astor, wrested his mother's old Commons seat from Laborite Lucy Annie Middleton by 710 votes. Brother William Waldorf Astor also got elected. Father, a viscount", sits in the House of Lords...
After war service as a parachutist in the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge and the sweep across Germany, Todd acted again in Dundee, then made his first film for a British company. That impressed Director Vincent Sherman, who won his reluctant consent to star in The Hasty Heart. Explains Todd: "I had too many ideals, I didn't realize then what films get away with...
Married. Arthur William Wermuth, 32, rough, tough, erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan"; and Patricia Steele, 23, Denver parachutist; he for the second time (not including a Filipino nurse whose claim that they were married in 1941 he has persistently denied), she for the first; in Wheatland...
Hannah Szenesh came to Palestine from Hungary as a child. She became a member of a collective Sdot Yam, located near the ruins of ancient Ceasarea. When war broke out, Hannah Szenesh volunteered for special service in Hungary and enrolled as a parachutist. She was trained by the British. Hannah was to make contact with Jewish members of the Hungarian resistance movement and relay certain Allied Command instructions to them. She was caught, tortured, and finally shot by a firing squad. Hannah Szenesh was a member of Haganah...
Major Arthur Wermuth, the erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan," now touring with an air circus (though he was not a wartime flyer), flew higher & higher. Mrs. Fred Steele of Denver announced that he and her daughter-a parachutist with the circus-were engaged to be married. No word came from the Filipino nurse who claimed he married her in 1941 (she's suing for an annulment). Word did come from his Traverse City, Mich, wife of the past ten years-"Well, that does befuddle...