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Word: y (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while this attractive little crew is waiting in port for their captain to sober up (it's been two weeks, y'know), so they can sail to Africa and make a killing in uranium, they become entangled with a British tourist and his wife (Jennifer Jones'). These tea-soaked commoners hold illusions of grandeur and romance which fool the intriguers as thoroughly as they fool the Britishers themselves...

Author: By Frederick H. Gardner, | Title: Beat The Devil | 2/8/1961 | See Source »

...time off from rehearsals for her International Revue to talk about a book she is writing: Marlene Dietrich's ABC's. Under each letter of the alphabet, Marlene will write about subjects that concern her. "I'm going to put President Kennedy in the book under Y and not K," she said. "For youth, you know." But writing comes hard to Marlene. "I've talked to Hemingway and everybody who knows about this problem of getting down to writing," she said. "I make the same excuses as everybody else to avoid the issue. My best excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 3, 1961 | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

Kennedy continues decimation of Harvard faculty with choices of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., as Commissioner of Internal Revenue; Elliott Perkins as Director of the National Park Service; William Y. Elliott as Director of the Tennessee Valley Authority; John Yovicsin as Coach of the White House Touch Football Team; and John Kenneth Galbraith as Ambassador to the Revolutionary Government of Ethiopia.... Pusey says that he is "pleased as punch and proud as a peacock," and makes plans to attend the inauguration.... Frank Sinatra's "Inaugural Gala" features the Harvard Band and Glee Club, and makes so much money that even Foster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tealeaves and Taurus | 1/5/1961 | See Source »

...King of the Belgians, like many a conservative bridegroom, was beginning to discover a thing or two about at least one of his bride's relatives. As Baudouin honeymooned last week in Andalusia with his winsome new Spanish Queen, her brother, "Count" Jaime ("Call me Jimmy") de Mora y Aragón, 35, was giving in to what he calls his "little weakness" - the love of notoriety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Brother-in-Law | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

Married. Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 30, King of the Belgians; and Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, 32, gentle daughter of Spain's Marqués of Casa Riera; both for the first time; in Brussels (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 26, 1960 | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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