Word: alva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alva Morrison...
Married. Captain Bruce Alva Gimbel, 32, ATCman and merchant princeling, eldest son of Bernard F., autocrat of all the Gimbels (Gimbel Bros., Saks Fifth Ave., etc.); and Barbara Ann Poulson Caton, 24; both for the second time; in Long Beach, Calif...
...dance, its critics are superior to the Times's. Under Mrs. Reid, the hiring & firing has shown spotty judgment. A good man like Columnist Franklin P. Adams was let go; Walter Lippmann was brought in; so was Lucius Beebe, with his ormolu prose. In the days of Alva Johnston and of Stanley Walker, the Trib's city coverage was the sprightliest in town...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...
...retired to an inner room where he had already made hara-kiri preparations, ignominiously and hastily shot himself below the heart with a 32-calibre pistol. Given a 50-50 chance to live, he cried: "I want to die." His death would be only a beginning. In Manila Colonel Alva Carpenter was preparing a war-criminals list running into thousands of names. Prison-camp atrocities (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) spurred preparations for punishing the guilty. What ever the shortcomings of the U.S. Regular Army brass might be, lack of esprit de corps was not among them. The war-crimes provisions...