Word: clara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a kitten when he first padded into the Villager's office in 1935. In three months, lithe, quick-moving Scoopy rid the office of rats. Such energy won him a home, a byline and the editorial assistance of Clara Bell Woolworth and later Emeline Paige, two Village ladies with a passion for anonymity. Scoopy plumped for neighborliness and civic betterment, supported the Greenwich Village Humane League, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the United Nations Children's Fund. His fan mail was the Villager's biggest...
Throughout the night the poorly organized rebels, supported by tanks and field guns, mounted attack after attack on the palace, the police station and the army airport. The town's best residential sections, Tivoli and Santa Clara, were squeezed in a triangle formed by the military academy on the north, the airbase on the south and Fort Guardia de Honor on the east. Tanks clattered through as street fighters kept up a running battle from doorway to doorway, the military bases exchanged artillery fire and government planes zoomed down to bomb tanks and strafe street fighters. The quaking government...
...Clara Bow, 43, "It" Girl of cinema's flapper era, better known to a later generation as radio's first "Mrs. Hush," would come out of retirement, briefly, for a stage appearance. The show: a Santa Fe straw-hat production of Personal Appearance. Her role: a man-crazy movie actress on tour. Now the wife of a rancher (ex-Movie Cowboy Rex Bell) and mother of two children, Clara was doing it strictly "for fun." A Hollywood comeback later on? Not a chance, said she: "I had my babies and I like the life in Nevada . . ." After...
Friends say Lara, though he is now married to a 19-year-old chorus girl named Clara Martínez, still worships María. Last week, while he was playing and singing at Mexico City's Capri nightclub, Diego and Frida Rivera entered with María Félix, were ushered to a ringside table. Lara stopped the song he was singing, switched to Palabras de Mujer...
Valpey had special words for the new men up at Stanford. Of the freshmen, Art estimated that between five and eight would possibly make the starting team. The transfers--men that found Yuba, Glendale, Colorado, and Santa Clara unsatisfactory--should also fit into the picture pretty nicely...