Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manila for some radio gear. Once in the capital, Jones got his information to Secretary Magsaysay, who immediately sent 6,000 soldiers converging on Mt. Dortz from four sides. They routed the outnumbered Reds, destroyed 57 buildings, killed more than too, including Peregrino and Rebecca Taruc, cousin and sister of Huk Army Commander Luis Taruc. Exulted Magsaysay last week: "We have just disrupted the biggest and most active Huk regional command in central Luzon and seized what was probably the Huk army's most strategically located stronghold...
Scheduled to leave this week for the International Poliomyelitis Conference in Copenhagen, Sister Elizabeth Kenny told reporters in Sydney, Australia that her 40-year fight against polio was moving inexorably toward an end. Said she: "I am unwell and incurably so. I only hope I will be spared the time to come home again. I am very happy in my beautiful Toowoomba home among my own relatives and the people among whom I made my discoveries on poliomyelitis. I want to end my days at home...
...Sister Mary Aquin teaches English at Aquinas College in Missouri. "At first," she says, "I felt like a stranger in exile, with my apartment in Boston and only two other nuns on the campus. Sorry, I mean Yard. But everybody is so friendly and when I go to class people say "Hello, Sister, I'll walk you to Lamont...
Marie du Port (Bellon-Foulke International) is a rueful French comedy relating, with De Maupassant relish, the unequal struggle between a middle-aged roue (Jean Gabin) and an innocent young barmaid (Nicole Courcel), who is the young sister of his mistress. While his mistress attends her father's funeral in a Breton fishing village, Gabin idles about the town, casts a speculative eye on a boat which is for sale and on the barmaid who is not. Both boat and barmaid bring him back to tiny Port-au-Bessein, but he is unable to enjoy either: the boat...
Hear Yee, Hear Yee. In San Francisco, Telephone Operator Marie Yee, represented by Attorney Samuel E. Yee (no kin), won a divorce from John Yee on testimony of her sister Rosemary Yee and got court permission to resume her maiden name: Marie...