Word: pau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gunnery is so well-rounded he is also an anti-aircraft ace. Spectacled, dark, pinched, with a close-clipped mustache, he looks more like a "City" broker than the soldier-sportsman that he is (in the Army since 1902). His fox-hunting Irish father was Master of the Pau pack (supposed descendants of hounds with which Wellington's officers hunted in Spain). Sir Alan, who was born and raised in France, is one of the Empire's finest wing shots and anglers, and he once rode down and speared a wolf from horseback...
Died. Mrs. Patrick Campbell (Beatrice Stella Tanner), 75, great and temperamental actress (her biggest hits: The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Pygmalion) ; in Pau, France...