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...major production should be, and Director Aly Khan had rehearsed the Lausanne police and the Lausanne-Palace Hotel staff time & again. As soon as Leading Lady Rita Hayworth felt the first labor pains, Aly was to pick up a phone on a private wire and simply breathe the secret password: "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre [Maryborough-is going to war]." At the other end, a police functionary would flash the word to the motorized cops who were standing eagerly by to escort the couple to the Mont-Choisi Clinic. Then, after Aly and Rita slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Yasmin | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...work of Coach Henry Lamar and his two-man staff, who make "box--don't fight!" the password in the third-floor punch-palace in the Blockhouse...

Author: By Alex C. Hoagland jr., | Title: Lamar Shows Pupils Boxing, Not Fighting | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...Organization to Encourage People to quit Organizations was founded by the Rev. Howard W. Stone of the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Ind., in the hope that it would give people more time to go to church. The organization's motto: "Be a Quitter"; its password...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...burst he catapulted past the leaders. Said Arcaro later: "I never hit him. I never even clucked to him. All I did was look ahead and see that LeRoy Pierson, on Coaltown, was blocking the way. So I yelled 'Watch out, LeRoy!' It must have been the password...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Watch Out, LeRoy! | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Billy calls "all the latest antiques." In this hushed splendor, Billy and Eleanor play house. "Billy has changed," says an admiring friend, "from a Lindy table-hopper to a sumptuous host." The Rose parties are small but as meticulously cast as a Broadway production. "Conversation," says Billy, "is the password." It admits such famed raconteurs as George Kaufman, Ferenc Molnar, Ludwig Bemelmans and Leopold Stokowski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Heart | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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