Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preference. In Centralia, Ill., Jack and Mary Ann Sligar advertised in the Sentinel: "Wanted immediately-unfurnished apartment or house: man, wife, and daughter, 8, and dog. Will dispose of dog, but prefer to keep child...
Alfonso Gonzalez Pardo, great-grandson of ex-President Manuel Pardo of Peru, spent a night in a Manhattan jail for lack, purely momentary, of $50,000 bail. Wife Ann, an ex-Powers model suing him for $4,000-a-month alimony, had him arrested just to keep him on the scene. He had already sent about $600,000 home to Peru, she charged, and she was afraid he was going there himself. Said he: "I have no immediate plans, so I will stay here a while...
...canny director of shifty gridiron maneuver built around "a punt, a pass and a prayer"; longtime (1901-27) University of Michigan coach and athletic director (1921-41) whose point-a-minute teams made football history during the first five years of the century; of a gall-bladder ailment; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
...three of Wells's novels (Kipps, Mr. Polly, Tono Bungay) are considered the best pieces of genre comedy since Dickens. His scientific romances were immensely entertaining and often clairvoyant in their view of the future. His realistic novels are pretty certain to live. His novels of sex propaganda (Ann Veronica, et al.), in their time, were notable liberating forces. His Science of Life (written with his son G. P. Wells and Julian Huxley) may come to be recognized as an achievement still more remarkable than his world-famous Outline of History...
Hard tack and chocolate fudge, manly bellows and girlish squeals are the ingredients of Salem Frigate, which scuds from Cape Ann to the Barbary Coast without a second's worry about the finer points of literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next to Valour (TIME, June 12, 1939), is an old hand: he knows how to cram a historical novel full to bursting with blood, sweat and tears, and can wield both cutlass and bobby-pin with sangfroid...