Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sealed. In Miami, Fla., Patrolman D.K. Lee reported on a Negro admitted to the hospital, concluded: "Doctor sewed up lip. Further questioning impossible...
Died. Joseph C. (Crosby) Lincoln, 73, folksy, voluminous Cape Cod-born Cape Cod novelist; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Apple-cheeked son and grandson of sea captains, between his first novel (Cap'n Eri, 1904) and his last (The Bradshaws of Harniss, 1943), he usually summered on the Cape, wintered elsewhere, stub-penciled more than a book a year...
...Last year Bishop Chen baptized the Generalissimo's second son, Captain Chiang Wei-kuo. 29. *Three weeks ago Retired Bishop Gowdy now living at Winter Park, Fla., received the Special Order of Brilliant Stars medal from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
Died. Horace Victor Myers, 68, retired Jamaica rum magnate (Myers); in Kingston, British West Indies. He played host to thousands of U.S. citizens on Kingston's famed "Sugar Wharf." Died. Senator Charles Linza McNary, 69, Senate Republican leader; after a brain operation; in Fort Lauderdale, Fla...
Died. John Emanuel Leffler, 73, nefarious inventor, longtime Broadway showman; of coronary sclerosis; in Miami, Fla. At ten Leffler got a job passing out programs at Tony Pastor's, one rainy day picked up $4 in tips minding people's umbrellas, the next day invested the money in numbered brass tags. The result: hat-checking...