Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California-born Wellesleyites left for a more equatorial Yale. Ski fans left for the mountains. Quagmired car-owners left for the towing-station...
...countries was discontinued. To ship TIME to Beirut, for example, copies had to be moved from Cairo by truck over the desert to Kantara on the Suez Canal, ferried across the Canal and dispatched by train over the Sinai desert to Haifa, passed through troubled Palestine in a private car, over the mountains of Lebanon and along the Mediterranean coast road into Beirut, from which they could be airborne to Middle East subscribers and readers...
Thanksgiving was a quiet day with family & friends. On Saturday, the President and Mrs. Truman boarded the eleven-car special for Philadelphia and the Army-Navy game, accompanied by a 200-member party which included most of his official family and their wives. The Trumans sat in the front row on the Army side, stayed there throughout the game. His knees wrapped in an electric blanket, the President cheered with careful impartiality. At the half, he munched sandwiches and matched grins with General Dwight Eisenhower for news pictures...
...time, the truth was hard to come by. The aggrieved bus driver said that, when he failed to pull his bus out of the way of Rivera's car, the famed muralist had pumped bullets at him from a .45 semiautomatic. "Nonsense," cried Artist David Siqueiros. At the moment Rivera was supposed to have been squeezing the trigger, he was actually in Jose Clemente Orozco's apartment heaving charges of artistic ineptitude at his host and Siqueiros himself...
Crepe & Cardinals. Sam Breadon was not a shaky character. Back in 1926, when he calmly traded off Rogers Hornsby, the hero who won the first World Series St. Louis ever had, riotous fans hung crepe on Sam's office door, jumped on the running board of his car to shout insults. Sam's chilly blue eyes never flickered. He crossed up the fans again when he peddled off the great Dizzy Dean at the height of Dizzy's fame, for $185,000 (the Cubs bought a pitcher with a bad arm). Sam Breadon sold baseball heroes...