Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Chronicler Edgar Ferdinand Lundberg, 39 (America's 60 Families); by Isabel Gary Lundberg, onetime editor of The Smart Set; in Bartow, Fla...
Tags. At Camp Blanding, Fla., a sergeant summoning Privates Leo Meunier, Leo Meunier, Rene Meunier and Rene Meunier, none related, simplified matters by calling them L.P., L.Z., RJ. and R.R. At Jefferson Barracks, Mo., a roll-calling corporal called Privates Zlvelachoski, Korczykowksi, Svidunovich, and Squrtieri as best he could...
Author (James) Branch Cabell of Virginia spent several pleasant winters in St. Augustine, Fla., where he got interested in the character of Pedro Menendez de Aviles, who founded the town (oldest continuous white settlement in the U.S.) in 1565. Cabell read in a guidebook that the headboard of Menendez' coffin was in the City Hall...
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Buyer was redheaded, tough, 51-year-old Howard W. Parish, who got eleven Seattle businessmen to put up the money. As manager of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal since 1937, he boosted that paper's circulation from 39,000 to 55,000. Parish's happiest days had been spent on the Seattle Star, where he rose from newsboy to president and general manager of the Scripps-Canfield chain. In the days before the Scripps boys began meddling with the Star, he had built up the best circulation in the State...