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Word: calls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: No Place Like Home | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Booby Trap | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fall in Love | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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