Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrestling champ of the '20s and early '30s, down 50 pounds to a lean, keen 275, was roaring simultaneously through his resuscitated mat career (his $10 million earnings had all gone, somehow) and a series of lectures on "the constructive way of living." To the Santa Barbara (Calif.) Lions Club Strangler revealed: "Mental hygiene is the coming thing. . . . We can't reach a peaceful world if we instill the will to fight in our youngsters." But then, "by overcoming one obstacle, one gains strength and power to go on to another...
...Santa Ana (Calif.) Air Base, he was the nearest thing to an Irving Berlin or George M. Cohan of World War II. Loesser ground out some 200 service songs, including a slap at 4-Fs, They're Either Too Young or Too Old, a parade tune called What Do You Do in the Infantry, and one for the WACs: First Class Private Mary Brown...
...doughty rather than diffident. She once taught Mexican women in a boxcar; and she has a zealot's faith in the wonders of progressive education. Ever since she began putting her theories into practice in the University Elementary School, the rolling, residential community of Westwood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif, has hardly known a day of peace...
Married. Virginia Mayo, 26, wide-eyed blonde cinemactress (The Best Years of Our Lives); and Michael O'Shea, 41, brawny sideshow barker turned cinemactor (Jack London); she for the first time, he for the second; in Glendale, Calif...
...Right-Left split remained unhealed after Sioux City, but it looked as if Harry Martin would be top dog in the race to be president. And there was no doubt now who was the Guild's strong man. He was burly, closemouthed, onetime Make-Up Editor (Oakland. Calif. Post-Enquirer) Sam Eubanks...