Word: val
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Valentine Edward Charles ("Val") Browne, 52, the Earl of Kenmare, Viscount Castlerosse, Britain's balloon-shaped Walter Winchell; of heart disease; in Killarney, Eire. Heir to vast Irish estates, he was having a hard time making his luxurious ends meet when Lord Beaverbrook took him up after War I, made him his star gossip in the Sunday Express. A 300-lb., bullet-headed dandy, Val spread out from bar-&-boudoir intelligence to light commentary on international affairs...
...reaction of the Vatican is not yet known, but in "What To Do With Italy" both Salvemini and LaPiana contend that the Vatican distrusted modern democracy and supported fascism, quoting Pope Plus XI, and Cardinal Merry del Val, who called Mussolini "a man sent by Providence" and "visibly protected...
When the draft bill was being planned last year, Mrs. Roosevelt kept telephoning the President from her Val Kill cottage to urge that her draft-women program be included. If you are going to mobilize and train a nation, she argued, why leave out half the nation? But the President knew, and said, that no Congressman would touch a bill containing compulsory training for girls...
Married. Deanna Durbin, 19, blue-eyed cinema lark; and Vaughn Paul, 25, associate producer (son of Val Paul, Universal studio manager), her only beau; in Los Angeles' Wilshire Methodist Episcopal Church, with 900 screen folk looking...
Engaged. Deanna Durbin, 19, singing cinemiss; and Vaughn Paul, 25, associate producer, son of Val Paul (Universal studio manager), with whom Deanna has kept company ever since her parents allowed her to have dates. In her next film. Producer Joe Pasternak will let Deanna get engaged on the screen...