Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From start to finish, last week's farewell party for the retiring ambassador* and his wife was a happy get-together of good friends. Evita brought a new portrait down from the second floor to show her guests. Perón gave his friend Don Jaime a hand-tooled Belgian automatic shotgun, just the gift for an ambassador whose favorite Argentine sport has been weekend partridge shooting (in the Gaucho getup given him by Defense Minister Humberto Sosa Molina...
During his two years in Buenos Aires, big Jim Bruce had seen U.S.-Argentine relations hit bottom, then start an upward climb. With dogged good will he had brushed aside one anti-U.S. press campaign after another. Perón and Bruce seemed to hit it off well together. Bruce, a millionaire who knew how to run a business, never lost a chance to lecture the President on economics. "Let the Argentine economy alone," he kept repeating. "Don't tinker with...
...Northumberland Baptist Association canvassed the hills and valleys of central Pennsylvania by stagecoach, canal boat and horseback, looking for money to start a new school. That fall, with donations given by thrifty churchmen ranging from 25? to $25,000,* the school that was to become Bucknell University held its first classes-22 students meeting with two professors in the Baptist Church basement in quiet Lewisburg...
...lodge into a modern residence hall. Girls were canning home-grown corn, washing & ironing, cooking and serving meals, doing secretarial work. They were the current citizens of the 54-year-old George "Junior Republic" at Freeville, N.Y., and though most of them were trying to make a second start in their young lives, all of them were there of their own free choice...
Fibber McGee & Molly. The McGees (Jim & Marian Jordan) got their start in vaudeville, but now, Jordan says: "We're not sure we even know how to make an entrance any more. Maybe we old people can't adapt successfully to video." But they will try out for TV in October...