Word: desmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cubans), photographers put her through endless retakes in the humid cabin, until she fainted. Again & again, she told her "own story." (Sample quote: "I was in bed alone every night I was away from Jack.") Correspondent James Desmond of the tabloid New York Daily News gravely reported that her shipboard life was not all ecstasy, but "something too unglamorous for the fragile fabric of illicit love." (The headline: TIGHTWAD LOVER HAD ME SWAB DECKS...
Just when the story seemed about to sag, enterprising journalism revived it. Desperate Reporter Desmond and the Chicago Tribune's Norma Browning got a scoop on Mee's moody diaries, by putt-putting out to the yacht in a launch and swiping them. The Daily News and Trib rushed juicy excerpts into print, and the press feverishly tracked down the sexy-looking women that Mee, as a PT boat skipper, had saluted with purple poesy and erotic prose. One (whom he called "Tirana") was a nightclub singer named Lorraine De Wood; the Daily News found her in Milwaukee...
HARVARD DARTMOUTH (7) Feloney lw Warburton Farrell c Mather Crocker rw Cunliffe Greeley, R. ld Campbell, R. Preston rd Pulliam Lavalle g Desmond...
...starting line is captain Ralph Warburton, making his final appearance in a Dartmouth uniform before graduation and a trip to Europe with an AAU hockey team. Jeremiah will have his two huskies, 28-year-old Soup Campbell and George Pulliam at the opening defense spots, with goalie Dick Desmond in the nets. Pulliam and Campbell are both vicious body checkers...
...remain in first place contention. They will face a team that has not lost on its own ice since 1940 and that boasts a potent attack led by forwards Bruce Cunliffe and Bruce Mather. Their renowned hard-checking defensive duet of George Pilliam and Soup Campbell, and goalle Dick Desmond will add to coach Johnny Chase's difficulties, as well as the fact that the first 12 of Eddie Jeremiah's Varsity performers are returning lettermen...