Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Path of Napoleon. De Lattre and his 14th Infantry Division were posted at Rethel, near Reims, when the Nazis struck in May 1940. His was one of the handful of French units that showed up well amid general disaster; he hurled the Germans back six times before the crumbling line on his left flank forced the French command to order his retreat. He retreated fighting. Yet he found time to analyze the causes of the French defeat and to apply the lessons in practice. By picking up stray trucks and equipment wherever he could, he managed to reorganize his units...
...breeze of Americana, "les craps" and "les girls" fluttered into the cream-colored Monte Carlo Casino one morning last week. Six bright, mascaraed beauties, "straight from the Wally Wanger Broadway shows" (the publicity handout said), bounced into a big, baroque Casino chamber, joined croupiers, cameramen and curiosity-seekers around the first crap table in the Casino's 71 years of existence. Blonde, white-suited Lillian Moore-"one of the 100 most beautiful girls in the world"-took the dice, shook them, blew on them, threw the inaugural roll...
...more than two hours the officers bickered. Then Barrios announced that a junta had been formed and sent two tanks to the National Palace to demand Arevalo's surrender. The President's defiant answer: "My term is six years. I will serve not one minute less and not one minute more...
Louis B. Mayer, party of the first part in many a six-figure contract, had his own option picked up by Loew's, Inc. Presi dent Nicholas M. Schenck, who signed him up to head Loew's-owned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a few more years...
...Kirkwood Jr., husky, handsome pro golfer and "the Ideal American Boy" who plays Joe Palooka in the movies, was hauled off to court in Worcester, Mass. and adjudged the father of a pair of six-year-old ideal American twins belonging to a movie cashier named Florence Hep-penstall. "I scarcely knew the girl," said Joe, who nonetheless made a prompt cash settlement...