Word: addressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister to Luxembourg, sailed off to work with a shipboard farewell from 80 friends, including Mrs. Harry S. Truman and daughter Margaret, Chief Justice and Mrs. Fred M. Vinson and onetime Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Rohde. Amid the orchids, champagne and caviar, someone asked: "How does one address you, Mrs. Mesta-as Your Excellency?" Beamed the new diplomatiste: "Just call me Perle...
President Truman (Mon. 3 p.m., ABC and Mutual). Address to American Legion convention in Philadelphia...
...issue of TIME to the Red Cross, which put it aboard a British passenger ship at Madeira, where he got hold of it. When he got to Capetown, where he was working his way as a seaman, he wrote a letter thanking the young lady, whose stenciled name and address were on the cover of her copy of TIME. The upshot of that was that they began a steady correspondence, exchanged photographs and, at present, are planning to marry...
...calling card gave the visitor's home address as Rolyat Castle, Accra, on West Africa's Gold Coast; his phone numbers, 337 and 406. He was Nii Kwabena Bonne III, Osu (chief) of Alata Manche, Oyoko-hene (headman) of Techeman, and general president of the Ga Football Association (Alata Manche, Techeman and Ga are states on West Africa's Gold Coast). Last week the Osu flew some 3,000 miles to Britain, leaving twelve wives behind in his Accra palace. He landed at London Airport wearing red and green robes, a red hat spangled with jewels...
...Budapest, "Andrassy ut 60," an address usually spoken in whispers, means what "Lyubyanka" means in Moscow: it is th.e headquarters of the Communist secret police. Boss of Andrassy ut 60 was Peter Gabor, onetime tailor's apprentice, who became a journeyman Communist and got his final training in Moscow. Gabor reached the zenith of his career at the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty, where he produced evidence supposedly showing the cardinal's connection with U.S. diplomats. Under Gabor's regime, Andrassy ut 60, whose windowboxes were always bright with geraniums, became dreaded for merciless beatings and torture...