Word: las
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Incurably Depraved? ("If it is, reading this book will be a waste of time . . .") and The Land Question ("It is so fundamental that if we go wrong on it everything else will go wrong automatically"). The book has more than its share of the humorously wreathed sagacity that Shaw las offered British life & letters for the past 70 years...
Married. David Mdivani, 44, last-surviving of the three "Marrying Mdivanis," oil speculator; and Virginia Sinclair, 29, daughter of Oil Tycoon Harry Sinclair; he for the second time, she for the first; in Las Vegas...
Married. Lionel Atwill, 59, matinee idol of the '20s, now coasting along in Grade B cinema horrors (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man); and Mary Paula Shilston, 28. concert singer and radio writer; he for the fourth time; in Las Vegas...
...Arnold, Army Air Forces chief; in Los Angeles. Married. Band Leader James ("Kay") Kyser, 38, schmaltzy "Professor of Musical Knowledge"; and Georgia Ann ("Gorgeous Georgia") Carroll, 24, onetime highest-paid Powers model ("The Chesterfield Girl"), now Kyser's sweet-voiced vocalist; both for the first time; in Las Vegas, Nev. Died. Josef Beck, 49, Poland's unpopular, unscrupulous, prewar Foreign Minister; after long illness; near Bucharest. A protÉgÉ of Dictator-Marshal Josef Pilsudski, who made him Foreign Minister (at 38, the youngest in Europe), "Little Joe" soon made a reputation for himself...
...Roundly condemned the contract made by Jesse Jones's Defense Plants Corp. with Basic Magnesium, Inc. to build the country's biggest magnesium plant at Las Vegas, Nev. (TIME, April...