Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Corporal Clifford S. Heinz Jr., 25, grandson of the late H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz; by Elizabeth Bald Heinz, 26, Baltimore socialite; after seven years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles...
These were the chief points on which the opposition had trained its sights. But no heavy barrage was fired. Only one Senator took careful aim. Pointing a long, tobacco-stained finger, Colorado's big (200 lb.), bald Republican Eugene Donald Millikin lined up his target: the use of U.S. armed forces under the Charter. He asked: what control would the U.S. retain over its share of an international armed force? Could the U.S. reserve to itself decision over where and how to use its forces? Senator Millikin's close questioning of John Foster Dulles, the Committee...
...Bald Captain Kiefer would yell excitedly at his men: "Above all, don't get excited." One day he would say: "I have such a good time on this ship I ought not to take money for running it." Next day: "I wouldn't take this job again at five times the pay." The crew loved him. The Captain had two distractions: his $200 guitar, on which he played (badly) such tunes as Ida and Wishing and Nobody...
...taken four months of prodigious labor by bald, burly Commodore William Aloysius Sullivan, the Navy's chief of salvage, and the thousand-odd officers & men of his Manila-Subic Harbor Clearance Group. In clearing approach channels, the slips and the Pasig River (where wrecks lay three deep in spots) they had fished up more than 400 Jap craft, large & small. A few they had beached for salvage; many they had refloated with big air bubbles pumped into the holds, to be hauled away bottoms-up and sunk again...
...homecoming was not what bald Ernest Humphrey Scott, president of Chicago's E. H. Scott Radio Laboratories, Inc., had expected. Back from a trip to Australia, he found the Scott Company's capitalization increased from 6,000 to 251,850 shares on the strength of wartime sales to the Navy. Almost 225,000 shares had already been sold to the public for $703,125. And Founder Scott found himself demoted from his $18,000-a-year job as president to advertising & sales manager...