Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, mother of glamor girl Gloria Jr. and twin sister of England's Lady Furness, flew home from England with glad tidings of London. Reported mink-coated Mrs. Vanderbilt: "The people are brave and are taking it beautifully. Nobody dresses formally...
Twosomes. In Lawrence, Mass., Mrs. Elphege Dubois gave her six-year-old twin daughters a birthday present: twin sisters. In Los Angeles, Theresa Lewis and Clara Hyland, two sisters with the same birthday who had a double wedding to men they met on a double date, had daughters the same...
Under the twin impact of nationalism and resentment of Western exploitation, colonial, subservient Asia had begun to disintegrate decades ago. World War II had greatly accelerated the process. The war had enfeebled, physically and psychologically, the claims of Western power over the Eastern treasure house. The French and Dutch, hungry and shivering at home, seemed particularly awkward in the role of guardians of empire...
Died. Commodore Dixie ("Indestructible Man") Kiefer, 49, barrel-chested, battered carrier hero, exec of the Yorktown at Coral Sea and Midway, Captain of the twice-Kamikazed Ticonderoga, who remained on the bridge for eleven hours directing damage-control operations after he had absorbed 65 bomb-fragment wounds; when his twin-engine plane crashed near Beacon, N.Y. in pea-soup...
...small movie theater in Hugo, Okla. (pop.: 5,909), Owner Allen L. Blunt was checking his books one night. He was astonished to find that the popcorn machine in the lobby earned almost as much as the box office. So with his twin brother Aimer L. he decided to try his hand at popcorn growing...