Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rindlander. In Holdrege, Neb., when German P.O.W.s were served their first watermelons, one enthusiast ate his entire piece, rind...
Married. Sir Malcolm Campbell, 60, onetime automobile speed king, still the world's fastest speedboat racer (141.74 m.p.h.); and Betty Humphery Nickory, 38, blonde British yachting enthusiast; both for the second time; in London...
Died. Clifford Burke Harmon, 79, the world's No. 1 amateur air enthusiast, who used his real-estate millions to help indigent flyers and to found the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs (which gave the annual Harmon international air trophies); in Cannes, France...
...messenger was Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish nobleman, Boy Scout enthusiast and general do-gooder who married U.S. Heiress Estelle Manville (Johns-Manville asbestos) in 1928. Recently he had been living near Hamburg, representing the Swedish Red Cross...
...Schoolboys. Forrestal unveiled for the first time a committee of businessmen who have been helping the Navy to unravel its problems. Committee heads are Thomas P. Archer, yachting enthusiast and vice president of General Motors; George Wheeler Wolf, Naval Academy graduate and president of U.S. Steel Export Co. The Archer-Wolf group surveyed the whole logistics field, functioned in the Navy Department as efficiency experts...