Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...austere rabbi (who had no children) had taken Josef to task: "You must know home for a Jew is Palestine. That is something to be struggled for ... to pave the way for the children of Israel." Now, as he prepared to board the Strasbourg train to tell his wife that Rebecca and Israel were not coming, Josef had his answer. From one of the steaming, sweating shipholds, they had finally sent him a message: "We will meet again in Palestine or never...
...with a Valspar finish), went to Britain last month for his first vacation in ten years. In the midst of Britain's crisis, the Foreign Office ordered him back to the U.S. immediately. But he had come to Britain, protested Inverchapel, on important personal business: to acquire a wife and to exorcise a witch. The Foreign Office thought this a sample of the celebrated Inverchapel wit. It had hardly stopped chuckling before Inverchapel had accomplished both missions...
...Edinburgh registry office, Inverchapel (65) remarried fortyish Chilean beauty Maria Teresa Diaz Salas, whom he had first married in 1929 when he was envoy to Chile. His wife was known to her Santiago friends as "Sweet Candy." Inverchapel divorced her in 1945 (for desertion, in 1941, when he was Ambassador to China...
...week. What Bill Dickman wanted was a "job with a future." For four years during the depression, he was jobless; finally he got work driving a railway speeder in the lumber woods. For eight years he left the logging camps only once in every four months to see his wife Christine and his young son. When the war began, he got a $300-a-month welder's job in a shipyard, but Selective Service ordered him back to the woods for the duration...
Arrested and jugged overnight for drunkenness were John D. Spreckels III, 38, one of the playboys who share the Spreckels sugar fortune, and his curlylocked third wife, Lou Dell, 37. Heretofore John's fun-loving, free-swinging cousin, Adolph B. Jr.,*had tended to hog the limelight of the tabloids, but John and Lou Dell won through last week with a knock-down-drag-out fight in the middle of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Boulevard. While the Spreckelses whaled away with enough vigor to leave each other bruised about the head and ears (see cuts), crowds gathered...