Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bandsman Tommy Dorsey let it be known, through his business representative, that he had separated from his second wife, Actress Pat Dane. Barrel-chested Cinemactor Brian Donlevy got a divorce after complaining that his wife 1) had been complaining for ten years, and 2) had been so busy for the past three years that he could never get a date with her. Greer Garson, 38, officially announced her separation from her second husband, Actor Richard Ney, 28 (who played her son in Mrs. Miniver). "Like many other married couples," Miss Garson observed, "we have had difficulties...
...idea what to do to get along without a cistern has been successfully rigged up by Lena Bloom, over at the county seat, who turned about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a light shower she invariably gets enough in the tub to do a washing, but a heavy downpour will not only fill the tub but will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down...
Unseasonal high temperatures on the Eastern coast may cancel ski team participation in the West Point Winter Carnival next weekend, because of a lack of essential snow. Robert L. Barrel '46, ski team manager, announced yesterday...
Individual skiers, however, took part in the Franconia Open Giant Slalom and Cross Country meet Sunday and Saturday, Barrel announced, as Bill Halsey, ski team coach, placed second in the cross country event...
...year 1946, he explained, saw one of those challenges spiked, at least temporarily. Soviet nationalism had become less aggressive. But the other, the ideological barrel, was still loaded and aimed. "In most of the world, effective popular leadership is in the hands of persons who are sympathetic to Soviet Communist doctrines." Spreading revolutionary movements in China, India, Dutch Indonesia, French Indo-China, Latin America, France, Italy gave Communists reason to remember 1946 "joyfully." Under the threat of that Red explosion the U.S. now stands. How best to meet that threat was Dulles' concern...