Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...associated with an organization which called Franco "a good Christian gentleman." In 1935, as Stanley Baldwin's Foreign Secretary, he went to Paris and made an abortive deal with slippery Pierre Laval which sabotaged all efforts to stop Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia (by dismembering the Negus' country and putting the quietus on League oil sanctions...
...STANLEY WARREN...
...before. He lives with his pretty wife Charlotte (who writes children's books) and his daughter Marion, 17, in a modern redwood-paneled house. With some neighbors, he organized an armchair strategists' society after Pearl Harbor. Jackson also belongs to a club of mystery-story writers (Erie Stanley Gardner was an editorial colleague on the Sunset). For one club dinner, which 13 members were scheduled to attend, it was decided that a body should be found at the table. The club invited Cinemactress Jane Russell-"probably," says Jackson, "the best body available at that time...
What prompted Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to collect owls? Why do normally intelligent people collect cuspidors, garters, hearses, thimbles? Very simple, say the Rigbys: collecting is one of the basic instincts-animal as well as human (the proprietor of a London restaurant spent years blaming souvenir-hunting patrons for the disappearance of napkins; eventually he discovered that a fat brown rat had built a nest in the wall of the restaurant, there amassed a collection...
Some units were flown over the Owen Stanley range. Others walked, lugging their equipment-a terrible trek which took Company E of the 126th Infantry 49 days. On the other side of the range they slogged through mangrove swamps and jungles up the coast to Buna...