Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sartorially Yours. In St. Petersburg, Fla., Charles Granderson lost his entire wardrobe to a burglar, moved to new quarters vacated by a tenant convicted of watch-snatching, found his own clothes hanging in the closet...
Died. Sadakichi Hartmann, eightyish, dramatist, artist, philosopher and mop-haired onetime "King of Greenwich Village"; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, son of a Korean woman and a German munitions worker, he married three times, begat 15 children, named one set after jewels, another set for flowers, was the boon companion of artistic greats, from Walt Whitman to John Barrymore...
...Coral Gables, Fla., a citizen's association, shocked by Florida's juvenile delinquency, has raised $50,000, begun acquiring property for a youth-center memorial. The center will provide teenagers with tennis courts, a softball diamond, library, snack bar, recreation room and a patio for dancing...
After her farmer-husband died, Mrs. Lessie Mills, of Fort Meade, Fla., took to babying the youngest of her five children. As a result, Jimmy Mills got to be known as "mama's pet," grew up so timid that he was afraid to go to bed at night unless his mother were close at hand...
Died. Reginald Langhorne (Pete) Brooks, 42, New York socialite, flying enthusiast, nephew of British M.P. Lady Nancy Astor; in his Miami Shores, Fla. home, presumably by suicide. In 1933 he married Aline Rhonie Bamberger, set off on a 17,000 mile aerial honeymoon flying his own plane, his bride another "because both liked to do the piloting." They were divorced...