Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed up never got inside, ≤≤ Joe Louis was ordered to double his wife's support, pay Marva $200 a week. ≤≤ John Henry Hammond's daughter, Alice Hammond Duckworth, will marry Swingmaster Benny Goodman when she gets her divorce from George Duckworth, a Briton she left in Britain to sail home in the West Point. ≤≤Satin-haired Singer Harry Richman, freshly divorced by wealthy ex-Follies Beauty Hazel Forbes, had his picture taken being nuzzled in the ear by Showgirl Eileen Shirley...
...William Willett, the sun-struck Briton who fathered daylight saving, died in 1915 as warring European nations adopted "summer time." Willett argued for an 80-minute setback. U.S. Daylight Saving Father is Robert Garland, 78, of Pittsburgh, who last week opposed the President's plan for year-round daylight saving, said it would work hardship in winter...
...pictures were rushed to a big port-complexioned Briton, Sir Richard Peirse, Chief of the Bomber Command. Knocking out his pipe and shutting off his notoriously favorite pipe dream-a dreadnought bomber with high enough ceiling, great enough speed and sure enough armament to make any fighter useless-Air Marshal Peirse set "interpretive experts" to work plotting the exact location of ships, number of planes necessary for a thorough job, other mechanical details. Then Sir Richard sat down with his staff and Fighter and Coastal Command liaison officers to discuss tactics: time and place of rendezvous, level of attack, number...
...gaunt, grimy London suburb last week George Johnson Armstrong died by hanging, the first Briton executed as a traitor in World War II. A 39-year-old ship's engineer, he was charged with offering his services as a spy to the German Consul in Boston. With him were hung three alien spies. Another Briton, a woman, sentenced to hang at the same time, had her sentence commuted to 14 years imprisonment...
...goateed, salt-&-peppery Sir Thomas Beecham, struck up with the CBS Symphony. His tangiest item was a seldom-played piano concerto, the only one written by England's late, blind Frederick Delius, who once lived in Florida. At the keyboard in the concerto was a third Briton: pretty, blonde Betty Humby, 33, who has supported herself by expert piano-playing since she was a child...