Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan dinner where Author Carl Van Doren gave him a scroll for one of the ten best non-fiction books of the year (Inside Asia), slab-sided Journalist John Gunther announced he had still to learn enough about his native land to write an Inside America...
...Carl Henry Proehl, a rangy Minneapolis youth, wanted to be a prize fighter, but his father objected. So Carl changed his name to David Barry, fought his share of bouts, in 1925 left town and never saw his folks again. His father died in 1932, his mother in 1935, leaving him some $40,000. In Long Beach, Calif., meanwhile, David Barry had married a nice girl, fathered two sons, done well with a coffee shop until in 1935 he sold out. His wife got a divorce, but before she did, Barry told her his real name, and she told...
Last month Mrs. Riggert heard the Court of Missing Heirs broadcast Carl Henry Proehl's story. Last week Carl Henry Proehl, alias David Barry, now 40, spare & repentant, was on his way to collect his money, promising to use it to assure college educations for his sons, David, 9, Douglas...
Mangrove thickets grew like tangled hair on the thin arm of land which embraced Biscayne Bay. Along came Realtors Carl Fisher and John Collins, shaved the mangroves off, filled the swamps with bay bottom and sand, and turned the arm into Miami Beach...
Garrulous Old Boy. North of the Bay of Pylos in Greece, the University of Cincinnati's Archeologist Carl William Blegen unearthed fire-scarred remains of a building which he identified as the palace of Nestor, ancient king of Pylos-the garrulous old boy of the Iliad and Odyssey who was always dishing out advice and talking about his early exploits. Pottery found on the floors was dated near the close of the 13th Century B. C., putative time of the siege of Troy. Digger Blegen declared that more than 600 clay tablets, apparently bearing lists of persons, inventories...