Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even on vacation, California's Governor Earl Warren gained in political stature last week. He displayed himself, with his wife and four of his six children on the beach at Santa Monica, as one of the few top-flight U.S. politicos who is not a hilarious figure in swimming trunks...
...found 18 tenants: an avocado grower, a man who sold sherry from a barrel, a florist, a rabbit raiser, more than a dozen farmers. Beck & Dahlhjelm got lumber and awnings on credit, built their own stalls, to rent for 50? each a day. They persuaded a millionaire oil producer, Earl Gilmore, to let them use a vacant plot he owned in the Wilshire residential district. Beck wrote radio ads, got them broadcast over KNX on credit. They were directed at farmers ("don't bother to bring us anything but the best"), but shrewdly intended for housewives. Within three months...
Boston bands take a turn for the humorous this week. The Tie Toe has sunk from Earl Hines to somebody with the unbelievable name of Stud Mosely. And the Ken, where no so many syllables of recorded time ago we heard Sidney Bechet, and J. C. Higgembotham, and Red Cless, and James P. Johnson, is featuring Sherman Kleeman's hand and a mysterious trio that not even the management knows the name of as yet. Sure it's funny. But, as Howard Mumford Jones used to say, not so damned funny...
During the month of June, the staff suffered another loss, although not directly to the armed forces, as Earl Brown, basketball coach and end coach on the gridiron, moved up to Hanover to take charge of Dartmouth's basketball and football Varsities. Dartmouth should be quite a powerhouse in the fall, with 2400 V-12 and Marine students eligible to play, since the Indians' unit includes a good number of experience gridders with a large contingent from Fordham...
...Jimmy Wasdell from the Pirates, Babe Dahlgren from the Dodgers. Dahlgren is now leading both leagues with a batting average of .351 ; Wasdell is hitting around .300. But the clinching stroke that has given the Phillies a winning combination was trading Outfielders Earl Naylor and Danny Litwhiler (Litwhiler was considered their best outfielder) for three Cardinal castoffs: Coaker Triplett, Buster Adams and Dain Clay (later swapped for Cincinnati Shortstop Charlie Brewster...