Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year to Yale, which heartily bored him because "there were too damn many Republicans." Looking for an easy way of making a living after his father died, he tried acting ("I was appallingly bad"), did his night watching over the rummage sale, reported for various Scripps-Howard papers, from Columbus, Ohio, to Baltimore. He did not last long ("Very definitely, I wasn't any good. I dislike the haste of newspaper work; I frequently dislike the sense of intrusion...
Count Nova de Tajo, 26, glossy but genuine Spanish count, was arrested as a Nazi spy by the FBI. Among plushy U.S. gullibles, he possessed several assets besides his liquid eyes. The Duke of Alba is his cousin, Columbus was his reputed ancestor. He is the husband of Powers Model Wilma Baard, barge captain's full-fashioned daughter who was launched in society in 1938 by such sponsors as Lucius Beebe and Cartoonist Peter Arno. According to the FBI, she never knew that the count was 1) unsuccessfully delving into U.S. war production, 2) unsuccessfully trying to feel...
CORA M. METCALFE Columbus, Ohio...
David Rubinoff, Schmaltz King of the fiddle, saw the special nightmare of Stradivarius owners come true: while he was preparing to play in Columbus, Ohio, his 213-year-old Strad (insured for $100,000) fell out of its case and broke...
Screens for Secrecy. Columnist Haworth, now in her 30s, reported for the Wilmington News-Journal in her native Ohio, then solicited ads for the Ohio State-Journal at Columbus. In 1930 she quit, married, went to Washington to live. She joined the Post in 1933, when her second child was still a baby, and after her marriage had gone on the rocks. She later got a divorce (in her column she calls divorce "social surgery" and "a desperate remedy for . . . sick relationship...