Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarine prowled around a Jap-held island. From the bridge her commander watched Navy planes raiding enemy installations ashore. One of the planes was hit by flak. A parachute bloomed, and the pilot, Ensign Donald Brandt of Cincinnati, flumped into the water two miles offshore...
Souvenirs. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Lena Coffin won, along with her divorce, $5,500 in war bonds and the custody of a carnival exhibit-a two-headed baby preserved in alcohol...
...Hollywood" was promoted to Little Rock in the Eastern League for the next season, but a broken leg kept him out of action. That spring, however, he was up for a look-see, with the Cincinnati Reds in spring training. It was the year after the Reds had won the world's championship, and there was little room. However, he became good friends with Ival Goodman, Mike McCormick, and Bucky Waiters...
...pleasantest ways in which a man of wealth can lose money is to back a ballet troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter...
...Last week Publisher Field bought a money maker: Cincinnati's Radio Station WSAI (5,000 watts, Blue Network), for upwards of $525,000 -subject to approval of the Federal Communications Commission, which had ordered WSAI divorced from Crosley Corp. and its superpowered (50,000 watts) Station...