Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...custom in New Orleans that when a graduate of Xavier University marries, he takes his entire wedding party to call on the university's president. No Xavier wedding is quite complete without the blessing of Mother Agatha Ryan...
Despite its high prices and exalted clientele, the club itself doesn't make Hover as much money as his sidelines: Giro lipsticks, cigarette lighters, ashtrays, glassware. He makes his own ice cubes, carbonates his own water, and runs annual concerts-starring Xavier Cugat-in the Hollywood Bowl. Even juicier dividends come from the off-premises liquor sales and a catering service which runs many of the major studio parties. "I have found," Hover says, "that people will buy anything with the name Giro...
...request of her niece, Mrs. Sarah Morgan Gardner of Princeton, I located Mrs. Morgan in Kyoto in May of 1946 while serving in Japan with the Marine Corps. I found her through the St. Francis Xavier Church missionaries in that city, men who willingly testified to her devotion to the church and to the hardships she had suffered in Japan as the widow of an American. Mrs. Morgan herself, a charming elderly lady, who seemed more Occidental than Japanese, was overjoyed to hear news of her American relations, who are all devoted to her and have made every effort...
Married. Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle, 26, French naval lieutenant, only son of Charles de Gaulle; and Henriette Marie Josephe Clemence de Montalembert, 19, svelte daughter of one of France's first families; in Poncin, France...
Died. Franz Xavier Schwarz, 72, pudgy bald treasurer of the Nazi Party from its 1925 beer-hall days to the finish; in a Regensburg, Germany, internment camp. Never famous himself, faithful Partyman Schwarz had one of the best-known mailboxes in Europe: Munich #33-where Nazis sent their party dues and contributions...