Word: blake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neatest little spy stories ever uncovered broke into print last week in Los Angeles. Arrested by FBI men were two dapper little Japanese and Al Blake. U.S. citizen. Al turned out to be no spy but a hero: he had pulled off an amateur job of counter-espionage that would have made a professional spy turn green with envy...
...yeoman in the U.S. Navy during World War I, 50-year-old Al Blake had a job as "Keeno, King of the Robots" in a Los Angeles store window. Standing beside a male dummy, he defied spectators to make him laugh or to tell which figure was human. Some four months ago a Japanese named Toraichi Kono ran into Al Blake. Well-known in Hollywood. Kono was once Charlie Chaplin's valet and private secretary, now has a small business...
Kono asked Al Blake if he would get in touch with yeomen aboard the U.S.S. Pennsylvania, try to worm some Navy secrets out of them. Blake agreed. Then he went to see Naval Intelligence officers, reported his conversation with Kono. They told him to go ahead, work with the Japanese, see what he could unearth...
Inspired by the guidance and coaching of Blake Dennison, head of Weld Boat House, the University sculling squad has come forth to make its best showing in recent years. For the first time a large number of men have come out for six-weeks training period in preparation for the recent Intercollegiate Sculling Meet...
...three Fellows studying English and Canadian literature, Mark Schorer, Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English Composition, will prepare a book on the relationship between ideas and forms in the poetry of William Blake...