Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain's Paradise. In Durham, N.C., Bus Driver Earl Williford, who operates between Durham and Dunn, N.C. (56 miles), pleaded guilty to keeping wives at both ends of the line...
...first nightclub appearance, to which he wore a white sheared-beaver coat over his silver tails, wowed the fashionable set, e.g., the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Earl and Countess Cadogan, Lord Foley, Princess Aly Khan. One girl dared to boo, and was sharply rebuked by the management...
...department stores (Boston's Jordan Marsh Co., New York's Stern Bros.) in Eastern cities, is spending $250 million for expansion of shopping-center branches. Allied is also investing $3 in its downtown facilities for every $1 it is putting into suburban centers, Board Chairman B. Earl Puckett disclosed last week. Said he: "We doubt that more than 20%-25% of our business will be in the suburban shopping centers...
Died. Yvonne Faith ("Cutest Little Nudist") Bacon, fiftyish, platinum blonde onetime hip-switcher (Earl Carroll's Vanities, 1930), who once danced in a costume of leaves which a trained fawn consumed as she wiggled, later claimed she invented the fan dance, sued Sally Rand for $375,000 for stealing the idea; after a jump from a hotel window when she failed to get a strip-joint job; in Chicago...
...Died. Earl Godwin, 75, longtime (since 1908) Washington newsman and folksy NBC radio commentator (since 1935); in Rehoboth Beach...