Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeking Divorce. Gwladys Hopkins ("Gee") Whitney, 35; from Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 42, multi-millionaire horseman and Pan American Airways board chairman; after ten years' marriage; in Hobe Sound. Fla...
...Toto (a she-gorilla) met Gargantua (a he-gorilla) last week. Their cautious introduction took place out behind the machine shop at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla. The two giant gorillas whom John Ringling North hopes to mate (TIME, Dec. 30) were wheeled up face to face in their separate cages. Attendants and newsmen watched...
JOSEPH K. VAN DENBURG Fort Lauderdale, Fla...
...while he was at college, Earl's mother died and the following year his father killed himself. Instead of going to pieces, the crippled orphan boy matured overnight. Today Dr. Carlson, happily married, spends summers in Manhattan and Long Island, winters in his school at Pompano, Fla. He speaks slowly, writes in a sprawling hand, but dances, swims, paddles a canoe, is a good shot. Dr. Carlson deplores pampering for spastics, insists that only the rigors of life can teach them to teach themselves control. His chief maxim...
...Reed Smoot, 79, from 1903 to 1933 Utah's stern, fiscally-minded Senator, co-author of the Smoot-Hawley sky's-the-limit tariff of 1930, longtime Congressional arbiter of Government finance, one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Latter-day Saints; at St. Petersburg, Fla...