Word: ace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ace (Benedict Bogeaus-United Artists) is custom-tailored to the specialized film personalities of Sylvia Sydney (a rich Congresswoman) and George Raft (a political racketeer...
WATCHUNG, N. J., Aug. 6--Ed Roberts, Jr., of Hohokus, N. J., scored an ace on the thirteenth hole, measuring 151 yards, today at the Twin Brooks Country Club. He used a No. 5 iron. Roberts won the Directors' tournament of the Ridgewood Country Club. He used a No. 5 iron. Roberts won the Directors' tournament of the Ridgewood Country Club recently...
...Somebody had to go to get the roster down to the June 15 30-player maximum. Boss Sam Breadon could not resist the $175,000 that the Giants offered for Catcher Walker Cooper. Infielder Emil Verban and Outfielder Johnny Hopp were sold to the Phillies and the Braves. Ace Pitchers Max Lanier (who had won his first six starts for the Cards) and Fred Martin went of their own accord to Mexico...
...weatherproof plywood. During the war, the Air Corps alone used 30 million board feet of it and, to date, Willis has sold more plywood to lumber dealers than anybody else. Some of his plywood profits, about $200,000 last year, were plowed back into Home-Ola. But his real ace in the hole is the interest he owns in two plywood companies. While shortages are squeezing other prefabricators, Home-Ola has all the basic material it needs...
Lieut. Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington swore out a warrant in San Diego for the lady friend he surprised last January by marrying another (TIME, Jan. 21). Lucy Rogers Malcolmson, charged the Marine ace, had stolen $9,340 he had sent her for the care of his children by his first wife (who married a newsboy last March). When the news reached Reno, Miss Malcolmson, who was preparing to become a landlady for marital transients, promptly disappeared. Six days later she was still missing...