Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blonde Mrs. Dorothy Lawlor, who had advertised her willingness to marry any man for $10,000 (TIME, June 7), made her choice. It was Dan Wicker, 33, proprietor of Danny's Musical Bar in Daytona Beach, Fla. The clincher had been a telegram from Danny: "Is you is, or is you ain't gonna be my baby?" Sighed Dorothy: "How could I resist a guy with a sense of humor like that...
...Tampa, Fla., the University of Tampa decided to reward Hollywood Hero Tyrone Power with an honorary doctorate of humanities...
...last January the Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif, made a routine shipment to their warehouse in Jacksonville, Fla. of 391 cases of 5% glucose in normal salt solution. All 2,346 bottles bore the laboratory code number CM-8164. Three months later a worried doctor in Hazard, Ky. telegraphed the American Medical Association headquarters in Chicago ; he had noticed alarming reactions in two patients who had been given injections from bottles labeled...
...request of their parents, the ashes of Lieut. Harwood Sharp of El Cerrito, Calif, and Radioman James Langiotti of Orlando, Fla., who were captured and executed by the Japanese after they had fought together as a bomber team through seven months of the Pacific war, were scattered over the waters five miles east of Hawaii's Diamond Head...
...Palm Beach, Fla., the Duke of Windsor also toyed with a new pursuit. It was too early yet to guess at his future. He pitched the first ball in the annual Society Softball Game-and it turned out he had never thrown one before. After a little instruction he managed to get it clear to the plate...