Word: las
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...observer) with a Spanish column pursuing Cuban rebels through the bullet-buzzing jungle; now he rode in a motorcade through Havana streets choked with Churchill-cheering crowds. He lunched with the President, gave the V-sign from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given 100 Havanas by the Minister of Agriculture, he responded with a testimonial: "They have a good effect on my temper...
Pappy promptly entered a righteous protest: "She hypnotized me." Then he instructed his lawyer to inform Mrs. Malcomson's lawyer that there would be no wedding. Hurriedly he bundled Frances off Las Vegas, got married before a justice of peace...
Married. Lois Andrews, 21, ex-show girl who married Comedian George Jessel at 16, divorced him at 18; and David Street, 26, radio singer; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
Married. Arline Judge, 33, cinemactress, and Vincent Morgan Ryan, 40, Chicago adman; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Las Vegas, Nev. Her previous husbands: Movie Director Wesley Rugples. Tinplate Heir Dan Topping, R.A.F. Captain James Addams (who left for England eight days after their 1942 marriage, never returned...
...them. The smartest trick of all was to install centralized traffic control on nearly 400 miles of U.P.'s single track, which gave it many of the advantages of double track. The whole 302 miles between Daggett, Calif, and Caliente, Nev. is now controlled by one operator in Las Vegas, sitting behind a battery of levers and buttons...