Word: doves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early on Sunday morning, he stopped at the Uvalde home of aging (79), still chipper John Nance Garner. "Cactus Jack" had spread a super-Texas breakfast: orange juice, mourning dove, white-winged dove,* chicken, rice and gravy, ham, bacon, scrambled eggs, biscuits, honey, preserves, pecans, coffee. Harry Truman ate some of everything in sight, said it was the biggest breakfast he had had in 40 years. Nothing was said of politics, but everybody got the idea: Jack Garner, that most conservative Southerner, was for Harry Truman...
Prescription. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Bertha Burton Adams assured the superior court that she felt her life of "drudgery and trouble" would take a turn for the better if she were allowed to change her name to Gentle Dove...
Bass Instinct. Near Whiteville, Tenn., Fisherman William Dower reported an attack: he was fishing peacefully when a large bass leaped from the water, knocked off his glasses, struck him on the temple, gashed him with a fin, victoriously dove back...
Early in his Hollywood career, the town gossips began dividing Hughes's women friends into two classes: 1) the established celebrities-Billy Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Bette Davis, Gloria Baker, Ruth Moffett, et al.-with whom he was seen in public; and 2) the young, eager and not too prudish unknowns with whom he was almost never seen in public. Hughes has a harsh word for the latter: he calls them "crows." But even from them he fears a rebuff. It is part of Meyer's job to see that the green light is up before Hughes...
Last week a dove of peace shuttled hopefully between the Israeli and Arab capitals. It was a white Dakota plane, with red crosses painted on the wings and body. The wings also bore, in bold, black letters, the words "United Nations" in English and French. The plane's principal passenger was 53-year-old Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, president of the Swedish Red Cross and U.N. mediator for Palestine. His mission was to win Jewish and Arab acceptance of a cease-fire agreement...