Word: piedmont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Gunder (the Wunder) Hägg, 24, Swedish snatcher of the U.S. outdoor mile record (at 4:05.3); and Dorothy Nortier, 19, blonde attraction of her father's Piedmont, Calif, restaurant; four weeks after Gunder sailed home. He met her when she played the accordion at a Swedish reception given for him in San Francisco...
...wave lengths down the Mediterranean from Rome had be rated the Allies, promised a big battle against their invasion armies. Now General Eisenhower and his staff listened for a proclamation of surrender from the Italian Government. The minutes slipped away to 7:30 p.m. Then spoke the Piedmont soldier's voice of Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...Pole Vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam, making his last Eastern appearance of the season (he is too serious about his school-teaching at Piedmont, Calif., to ask for more than two leaves during the school year), left all opponents behind at the 14-ft. level, cleared the bar at 15 ft. 3 ⅞ in. It was his 28th vault above...
...Idiom. From her tenth year through her 19th, the most formative time of her life, Mei-ling Soong lived in the U.S. While one of her older sisters went to Wesleyan College (Macon, Ga.), she stayed with friends in nearby Piedmont, learning the idiom and the point of view. She bought gumdrops at Hunt's general store with the other girls, and went hazel-nutting with them. She was always the one who was teased, but through the teasing she learned American gags. Later the girls went north to a summer school. A history teacher asked Mei-ling...
Born. To Princess Marie Jose of Piedmont, 36; and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, 38; their fourth child, third daughter, Beatrice; somewhere in Italy...