Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrangement keeps him from losing his steeplejack jobs. Of Brenda Frazier's ex-footballer "Shipwreck" Kelly, Alvin says: "I guess there's plenty of room for two of us as long as he don't go climbin' any poles." ∙ ∙ Racing Driver Kelly Carl Petillo, winner of the Indianapolis speedways in 1935, was charged with "suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon" on a Los Angeles cop. Petillo has two shiners, the cop one. ∙ ∙ Jack Dempsey is making personal appearances with a small-time circus. He referees side-show boxing matches, doubles occasionally...
This week a Finnish private soldier named Vilho Raetoe became a Knight of the Mannerheim Order-Finland's highest military honor-by decree of Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. There are only three other Knights-two colonels and a major general. Private Raetoe made a fourth by capturing a Russian anti-tank gun singlehanded, sighting along its barrel, from which the sights had been lost, wrecking four Soviet tanks...
Manager Ruhl had never made a gun or a gun part. Nor, so far as he knew, had any of his workmen. The specialized knowledge had to come from Inventor Johnson himself and from the boss of his barrel shop, an acidulous, gun-goofy Swede named Carl Ekdahl. By their joint ingenuity Johnson, Ekdahl, Ruhl & Co. had by last week piled up 5,300 finished barrels, 11,000 more barrels in process, 10,000 breech bolts, hundreds and thousands of other parts, before a gun was assembled...
Detroit art teacher, who has won ten awards in the last eleven contests. Teacher Anthony is a sure-enough sculptor who has studied under Carl Milles, works not only in soap but in wood, bronze, stone. A soap carving got him his first art fellowship. Sculptor Anthony did his prize-winning piece, a refugee couple bowed under their burdens, in two hours. He took a bar of soap along when he went to visit a friend who had had his tonsils out, whittled away while he talked...
Throughout Latin America, the blacklist meant an uprooting of long-established commercial relations. Great German firms like Agfa, Bayer and Merck Chemicals, Siemens and A.E.G. (German General Electric), Carl Zeiss (cameras), Condor and Lufthansa air lines were on the list. So were lesser German and Italian firms, some innocent neutrals and Americans...