Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Habeas Corpus. In Key West, Fla., Rupert Knowles, 368 Ibs., was excused from jury duty: nobody could find a big enough chair...
...Dorothy Lawlor, still willing to marry for $10,000 if things were right, flew in to La Guardia Field from Ciudad Trujillo, where she had been looking over one Albert Alna as a suitor. She had definitely crossed off Danny Wicker, Daytona Beach, Fla. bar owner. "We're both of too nervous a temperament to make a go of it," she explained. Though still unwed and unbespoken, Mrs. Lawlor had quit work as a hatcheck girl. "After all, there's nothing to check in the summer," she said...
Cross Porpoises. In Marineland, Fla., aquarium officials were distressed to learn that two porpoises they had shipped to Bimini, B.W.I, had become seasick en route...
...Boston's Symphony Hall last week, President Karl T. Compton paused in his earnest degree-dispensing and beamed delightedly as Graduate Jules Samuel Levin stepped forward. Stocky young (20) Jules Levin of Miami Beach, Fla. is quite possibly the outstanding college graduate of 1948. In four years at notoriously tough Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he had racked up a perfect 5 (straight A's)- the first in M.I.T.'s 83-year history. His modest explanation: "I picked up a little momentum...
President-elect Prio and the Auténticos also got a majority in Congress. But the minority might be lively. Among the new senators: moonfaced ex-Dictator Batista, who had directed his campaign from a deck chair in Daytona Beach, Fla., and was expected to return to Cuba in September...