Word: companions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acting on Turner's instructions two years ago, Agent Bert Kerr bought a highly regarded yearling named Tuleg for $25,000 at Britain's Newmarket sales. Chiefly to provide a traveling companion for Tuleg, Kerr threw in another $6,720 for Tomy Lee, a blaze-faced bay colt whose ancestry indicated he lacked the stamina to win at distances over a mile...
...conviction that the enemy himself is often more barbaric have resigned Frenchmen to barbarism in Algeria. In Algiers last week a Moslem who accidentally exploded a hand grenade, injuring no one but himself, was beaten to death by a street crowd; so, for good measure, was his companion. In West Germany, in an odd echo of the Algerian troubles, the public prosecutor of Frankfurt charged that a French underground organization called "the Red Hand" had murdered five Swiss and German citizens in a clandestine war against Central European businessmen engaged in selling arms to Algeria's rebel F.L.N...
...aboard!" shouted one of these attendants. "Don't crowd the swan!" Jessie smiled at him and he tipped his hat. "Catch that," he nudged a companion. "Hey--" he asked Jessie, "room for one more under that...
...curate behind the ribbons at St. John the Baptist's is the Rev. Narbrough Hughes D'Aeth, 58, and three years ago he was an R.A.F. air vice-marshal, with a C.B. (Companion of the Bath) and C.B.E. (Commander Order of the British Empire) after his name. A professional fighting man with a record of service around the world and the long habit of command, he now works at the beck and call of St. John's aging and nearly blind vicar, the Rev. Andrew Nugee, must tumble out of bed to take early service when...
...metropolitan Shanghai, threw some of the wildest parties in Cathay society), scion of a family whose enormous wealth derived from the China trade (including opium in the old days), prominent figure in English turf circles, cousin of Poet-Novelist Siegfried Sassoon; and Evelyn Barnes, 39, his blonde nurse-companion; both for the first time; in Nassau...