Word: pettiness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JOSEPH F. PETTI Upper Darby...
...Unity. For dreary months last winter, in a dreary wasteland camp, 5,000 men of the Greek First Brigade trained for battle service. Many were tough veterans, evzones who had doffed their exotic petti coats and pomponed slippers to fight frost bite and Italians in Albania's wild mountains. They had escaped from the homeland when the Germans turned the tide. Now they chafed to get back into the fight against the Fascists...
...think of her granddaughter, Christine Cromwell, as a glamor girl, she planned a simple debut for the 18-year-old daughter (by his first wife) of onetime Minister to Canada James H. R. Cromwell. For the party last week at her Grosse Point, Mich, estate, Mrs. Dillman brought Emile Petti's orchestra by plane from Manhattan, tied up the family yacht at the edge of the lawn (which drops into Lake St. Clair), served breakfast on solid gold plates, summoned photographers from all Detroit papers for a mid-afternoon snap-session. Same day dark-eyed Christine was named "Debutante...