Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship readied to sail, Messersmith and Perón stood bareheaded on the deck, the Ambassador visibly shivering in the raw winter wind, talking fast and repeatedly jabbing Perón on the chest with his index finger. Perón reassuringly patted the Ambassador. Then the President joined 12,000 Peronistas on the pier. "Perón! Messersmith! Perón! Messersmith!" chanted the crowd. For nearly an hour, as the Del Sud moved into the stream and out to sea, Perón stood on the quayside-still waving...
Forfeited, by John Dewey: a share in his first wife's estate ($68,565 net). Papers filed in a Manhattan court showed that she left him a share provided that he stay single. She died in 1927. After 19 years, Philosopher Dewey, 87, remarried last winter...
...back in 1936, an eccentric old millionaire popped up on the palm-fringed campus of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla. and began looking for a place to build an art museum. Even in those days, Spanish-styled Rollins College was something to behold. Under the unconventional presidency of Hamilton Holt, it was already running heavily to tennis and horseback riding, had abolished professorial lectures and final examinations, put little stress on student grades, went in for such campus curiosities as a tree-lined "Walk of Fame," paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world...
...Olivier's Old Vic costar, Actor Ralph Richardson, was knighted last winter...
Banker's Pay. Custom-cutting will remain profitable as long as wheat prices remain high and farmers grow more than they can cut with their own machinery. Dupree, a trucker in Phillipsburg, Kans. in the winter, has done well enough to acquire two combines, two trucks, a pickup and trailer (worth more than...