Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collapsible Francis Xavier Shields ran true to form and collapsed in the third round. Sidney Wood's erratic virtuosity survived four rounds. The semifinals drew the biggest crowd (8,000) in three years, and they cheered as madly as a mannerly tennis crowd could for Elwood Cooke's brave but hopeless stand against methodical Frankie Parker. In the other semifinals, Ecuador s pigeon-toed Pancho Segura learned once again that his two-fisted drives and self-satisfied "Bravos" were no match for Bill Talbert's power strokes. Talbert won easily at the cost of a twisted knee...
...witness chair stepped dapper Prince Xavier de Bourbon-Parme, cousin of Archduke Otto of Austria and an ex-inmate of Dachau concentration camp...
Spanish Jesuits, disciples of St. Francis Xavier, went to Nagasaki in the 16th Century. When missionaries returned there in the 16th Century, they were met by people who said: "We too are Christians. Our head is a white-dressed, aged priest called the Pope, who lives far away from here, we don't know where." Last week the second atomic bomb, that wiped out 30% of Nagasaki, devastated with it the oldest Christian center in Japan...
...Scouts, students, a uniformed midget and a legless man directed traffic in Guatemala City, which three weeks ago was the most heavily policed community in the Hemisphere. The Revolutionary Junta (Captain Jacobo Arbenz, Jorge Toriello, Major Francisco Xavier Arana) surveyed the smoking ruins of San José Fortress, whose guns had so often fired on the people of Guatemala, decided to make the place a children's park. Fifteen more generals fled to Mexico...
Young officers, students and workers last week captured Lend-Lease guns and armored cars to smash General Federico Ponce's Guatemalan dictatorship. When the shooting stopped, a provisional triumvirate ruled Guatemala: Captain Jacobo Arbenz, 28-year-old son of a Swiss druggist, who planned the revolt; Major Francisco Xavier Arana, and Jorge Toriello, son of one of Guatemala's first families...