Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Mazumbo let the cat out of the bag. His new name, he declared, was that of a famous West African chieftain, who had once been received by Queen Victoria. Said socially conscious Mazumbo of his socially accepted namesake: "The British Royal Family knows quite a bit about...
...plight of the plan, and of Argentina, was summed up in a blunt letter written to Perón by slim, brisk Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A., retired. As president of the Inter-American Construction Corp., Lord was hired by Perón last winter (TIME, Feb. 3) to draw blueprints for the plan's engineering projects. From his cluttered headquarters on Buenos Aires' Calle Uruguay, General Lord wrote...
Jessica Allan loves her job. She is the pert, bright-eyed, fortyish executive director of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities. Last week, when more than 300 mayors and aldermen from Halifax to Victoria swarmed into Winnipeg's Royal Alexandria Hotel for the federation's tenth annual conference, everything was all set. Jessica had seen...
...uniform were a dime a dozen in Halifax during the war years. But for little Minnie Harnish, the meek, blonde daughter of a fisherman, there was only one who counted. He was a big (6 ft. 3 in.) Royal Marine named David Cecil Boyes. Minnie and David met at a party one, night in September 1944, when David had shore leave from H.M.S. Berwick. For Minnie it was love "at first sight." As for David, he loved her "more than the service...
When the Berwick sailed for home a few days after the party, her complement was minus a Royal Marine. Picked up by a shore patrol and shipped home, David has never seen Minnie again. But he has never stopped trying. Once he got back to Halifax as a stowaway on a troopship, but he was caught before he could see Minnie. In three other tries, always as a stowaway, he was caught once in Port Said (he had thought the ship bound for Halifax), twice in Le Havre...