Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honk. In Glendale, Calif., the flames that enveloped L. L. Biggs's garage short-circuited the starter of his car and jolted it out to safety, short-circuited the horn and awakened Biggs...
...Life. In Los Angeles, Harry Hetzler insisted to police that it was impossible for his car to have been stolen because 1) it was parked just outside, 2) his dog was in it and would have barked, and 3) Ranch Hand Carl Thomas would have heard the noise and called him; the police patiently explained to Hetzler that 1) the car was in Yuma, Ariz., 2) the dog was still in it but sitting quietly, and 3) Ranch Hand Thomas had been arrested as the thief...
...Eden is feeling quite a pull from the West. He still likes to sleep outdoors (he is married, expecting a child), but is now pestered by reporters who ask him about his song, his beard, and what yoga means. He is about to give up his bicycle for a car-something hard-seated like a jeep...
Franco grew cagey in his dealings with Germany. At Hendaye, France, in the fall of 1940, he talked with Hitler for nine hours in the Führer's private car, "each entranced talker explaining himself in heedless stretches, recognizing no interruption or answer." Hitler thought he had sealed a pact; Feis shows that Franco had come to "seal a vacuum." A few days later Hitler told Mussolini that "rather than have the conversation over again, he would prefer to have three or four teeth pulled out." Franco soon decided that Spain should stay...
...Boston Symphony recorded "stars and Stripes Forover" and did a creditable job but might better have left such undertakings to the Harvard Band. To do long-hair (and that portion of the program was not limited to Bach) in such fine style, however, is a feather in the car of any military band. Perhaps the best of these "straight" numbers was the Suite in E Flat for Military Band, by Gustav Holst, which was played with finesse and showed off to best advantage the Band's excellent brass sonority, as well as the adeptness of its wind section in soft...