Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Robert Richard Chappuis, 26, All America (Michigan '47) passing ace, now under contract to the Chicago Hornets; and Ann Gestie, 21, his campus sweetheart; in Fargo...
Dividend. In Paris, Tex., when a nickel was removed from two-year-old Rebecca Ann Allen's esophagus, the doctor also found a penny...
Married. Margaret Ann ("Peggy") Hoover, 23, eldest of the ex-President's grandchildren; and Richard Tatem Brigham, 23, Boston wool broker and nephew of New Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll; in Pasadena, Calif...
...Dumbellelski. The story of Ann and Joe really started in 1921, when young Reporter-Cartoonist Hammond Edward Fisher met a Wilkes-Barre prizefighter named Joe, a Polish-American youngster with a fair left, a good right, a soft heart, and no grammar at all. An idea hit Fight Fan Fisher with the force of an uppercut. He rushed back to the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader's office and dashed off the first strip about a dumb, good-natured pug named Joe Dumbelletski...
When Palooka first fell in love with Ann (she was 16, he was 17), he told her: "I certny wunt have youse marry me until I kin give youse ever'thing in the world." Today he talks almost as elegantly as Gene Tunney. In 19 years, Joe has also grown older (he is now 24), taller and heavier. But he is just as clean-living, unsophisticated, tolerant and red-blooded an American as ever, and as innocent as if he never had a man-to-man talk about life with Man-about-Manhattan Fisher. Palooka is still world...