Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early Years. He grew up on his father's farm. At the university he rapidly became the biggest man on campus, earned money as a grocery clerk, bakery pan-greaser, sleeping-car conductor. He was an above-average student, president of the student body, senior orator, member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, captain of the rifle team (he once shot tassels off a fellow R.O.T.C. student's uniform in an exhibition...
With Ike were his wife, onetime Democratic Handyman George Allen and his wife, and William E. Robinson, executive vice president of the Republican New York Herald Tribune. They had come to Augusta for a vacation. They stepped into a waiting car and were whisked away...
...Augusta Chronicle sent a reporter and a photographer to try for an interview; they were not even allowed out of their car. When the Chronicle's Managing Editor Louis J. Harris tried, the Pinker-tons stopped him 50 feet short of the clubhouse. He yelled for the club's manager, who told him that the General was not to be disturbed and ordered him off the grounds...
...Manhattan police rounded up four members of a gang which staged phony automobile accidents to swindle insurance companies. The gang had a "flop man" who would throw himself under the wheels of a car, simulate serious injury, give a false name at the hospital. Later another member of the gang, picked because he had permanent scars or fractures, would go to the insurance company, say he was the victim, show his scars and collect...
...spring's gaudy carpet rolled north last week, the drive-in theaters were opening almost as fast as the daffodils. This week, New York City will get its first "ozoner": a 600-car, $300,000 affair on Staten Island. Six were open in Dayton, Ohio alone, and six would be running in St. Louis by summer. According to Boxoffice, more than 200 new drive-ins this year would swell the U.S. total-a mere 100-odd when war ended-to 546 built & building...