Word: alvah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wishing book," and it was usually tattered and dog-eared by the time somebody punched a hole in it and hung it in the family privy. When this particular catalogue appeared, the firm of Sears Roebuck and Co.-founded by Richard W. Sears, a former railroad-station agent, and Alvah Roebuck, a watch repairman -was four years old and prospering...
...Among them: last winter's The Symbol, by Alvah Bessie, a novel based on the life of Marilyn Monroe...