Word: calls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After seven weeks of marriage, Tyrone Power flew into London with his bride, former Starlet Linda Christian, who was quoted as burbling that the honeymoon was "just a dream" and that she was "just longing for a baby so I can call him Tyrone...
...night last week, bushy-haired Hans Trippler, 31, a radio ham, made a hurried call to the Detroit police. Trippler had been dismantling a war surplus radio device (bought for $4.90*) to get parts for his transmitter. In the center of the.machine he came upon a 6-in. cylinder labeled "Destructor." The cylinder contained two dynamite caps and a tube of thermite. Trippler's little find fascinated Detroit cops, the Michigan state police, the War Assets Administration, the Military, Air Force and Naval Intelligence...
...dealing with lazy thinkers and sloppy writers. Yet after classes, students knew they would find friendly counsel in his rooms. There hundreds have gone-from Sinclair Lewis to Yale's President Charles Seymour ("At last a president," sighed Tink when Seymour was named in 1937, "that I can call by his first name...
...Trippes weekend at an eight-room French Provincial-style house in a patch of woods near Greenwich, Conn., hard by the Round Hill Club where "Tripper," as some golf partners call him, plays up to 36 holes a day, usually shooting in the low 80s. In the summers the Trippes take their 16-year-old daughter, Betty, and three young sons, Charles, John and Edward, to a rambling, grey-shingled house on the ocean's edge at East Hampton, L.I., where Trippe likes to swim and surffish with the boys, exercising hard to work off tension. In winter...
Audience Participation. In Manhattan, Comedian Jack Carter reported that after his weekly television show he received a letter from a dentist: "I would . . . like to call your attention to a dark spot in your upper bicuspid area . . . May I be of service...