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Word: atlanta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a hole in the wall of Mexico City's penitentiary, guards extracted a counterfeiting outfit and 200 phony $20 U.S. bills. The proprietor was inmate Luis Eduardo Shelley Hernández, counterfeiter extraordinary, graduate of Atlanta and Alcatraz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Point of Honor | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...Order. In Atlanta, the State Senate, informed that women are willing to leave their husbands outside but not their dogs, passed a bill barring dogs, cats, and other pets from hotel rooms and tourist camps. In Nashville, for the protection of married men, a bill was introduced in the Legislature which would make the wearing of lipstick a felony. In Durham, N.C., State Senator R. A. Whitaker introduced a bill to forbid public, habitual drunkenness among judges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 19, 1945 | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., 43, back with his old law firm since his Army discharge last fall, recalled his grand-slam golfing days by burning up Atlanta's Capital City Country Club course with a five-below-par 65. Urged by fellow Atlantans to enter their $10,000 tournament in April, Bobby said: "I will when I get my game down to the point where the gallery will be safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Reservations | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...that he would be sued for divorce by Nora Eddington, who last month named him as the father of her daughter (TIME. Feb. 12); 2) Nora denied that she would sue; 3) Flynn, as usual, had no comment on that subject; 4) caught in a rarely talkative mood in Atlanta, Ga., he confided to reporters: "I'm almost afraid of women. When I meet a girl I like, I hesitate to tell her who I am. My reputation is too hot. . . . I'm not really [a] wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Reservations | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...Atlanta last week men jested at scars who most decidedly had felt a wound. In a Red Cross recreation hall, patients at the Army's Lawson General Hospital staged a rowdy revue called Grand Lawsony in which they kidded hospital life, Army red tape, and their own injuries. Most of the actors, and three of the four authors, were amputees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Grand Lawsony | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

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