Word: baron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Cynthia Vansittart, daughter of Robert Gilbert, Baron Vansittart; and Frederick C. Whitman, son of the late Davis Cup Tennist Malcolm D. Whitman; in San Francisco...
...before Pearl Harbor, Argentina acted with Delphic ambiguity last week, secretly instructed its delegates to act "in accordance with the principles which Argentina has always upheld in its international policies." But Argentina moved closer toward collaboration by "recalling" her Ambassador from Berlin, and announced that Germany had recalled Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann,* whose persona has long been non grata with Argentina's pro-Ally Chamber of Deputies...
...Salvador ousted Baron de Muzi-Falconi, Italian charge d'affaires, who scuttled for Guatemala City and a reported preconference rendezvous with the remaining Axis agents in Central America...
...fortified with tommy guns and flasks of vin ordinaire, landing parties took over the village in less than half an hour. Eleven brass-buttoned, picture-postcard gendarmes shrugged their shoulders, helped round up their superior officers. Most administrative officers were told to stay at their posts, but suave Parisian Baron Gilbert de Bournat, Administrator, was called to account before the flotilla's commandant, Vice Admiral Emile Henri Muselier, Commander of the Free French naval forces...
...Corsican Brothers (Small; United Artists) are (both of them) Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who has yet to make up his mind who he is: his father, or Ronald Colman. They are also the offspring of Alexandre Dumas. Their eventual defeat of Baron Colonna (Akim Tamiroff), who slew their parents, is accomplished with heavyhanded, uninspired direction and all the corny hokum that accompanies the routine Hollywood romantic picture...