Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Britain would not necessarily decide the World War. The enemy had dangerously extended his lines and was having his share of trouble: from sabotage in Norway, from anarchy in Rumania, from military reverses in the Battle of Greece, which had become the Battle of Albania. Yet the stronger Axis partner apparently hesitated to send aid to the weaker partner for much the same reason that the Allies could not help the Lowlands in time: to do so might make enemies out of friends. German diplomacy worked to incorporate Yugoslavia in its Axis Order, to soothe Turkey and Bulgaria. In Spain...
Died. Billy Jones, 51, tenor half of the Happiness Boys, first nationally known radio team, partner from 1920 until 1939 of the late Baritone Ernie Hare; of a heart attack, as he strolled along Broadway on his way to rehearse his Sunday program over station WMCA...
Died. Adrienne Morrison (real name: Mabel Morrison Bennett Pinker), 57, first wife of Actor Richard Bennett, mother of Cinemactresses Constance, Barbara and Joan Bennett; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A onetime actress herself, she turned literary agent and married Eric Seabrooke Pinker, later her partner, who last year pleaded guilty of misappropriating $20,637 owing to Client E. Phillips Oppenheim and was sentenced to prison...
...CASE OF THE SILENT PARTNER -Eric Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, insatiable lawyer-sleuth, is very nearly floored by a floozy on the West Coast. One jump ahead of Lieutenant Tragg, Mason solves a canyon slaying and whitewashes his lady client, who was being most foully done out of her common stock...
...State's cash income, and help A. C. L.'s traffic. Less extravagant than it looks, the trip costs A. C. L. only about $5,000. An other $5,000 (for exhibits, advertising, etc.) is borne by Florida's Department of Agriculture. The third partner is University of Florida's Agricultural College, which contributed three months of hard preparatory work, a staff of 20 specialists who wear big "Ask Me" buttons, explain the exhibits through loudspeakers in each...