Word: fla
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Randleman, N. C. had the distinction last week of being the home town of the first (and only) U. S. seaman to drown in the sinking of the first U. S. vessel sunk by the Axis-the 5,883-ton freighter City of Rayville (Tampa, Fla.). The ship apparently hit a mine, presumably laid by the same raider that had previously mined antipodean waters (TIME, July 1) in Bass Strait, between Australia and Tasmania. (A few hours earlier an unidentified British freighter had met the same fate.) Third Engineer Mac B. Bryan of Randleman, N. C. leaped overboard from...
Born. To Cinemactress Toby Wing, grandniece of the late Dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, and Pilot Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill: a son, their second; at Miami Beach, Fla. Last spring their first son accidentally suffocated at the age of eleven months...
Vinceute A. Rodrigues '41, Guanica, Puerto Rico.; Walter F. Rogers Jr. '43 Jacksonville, Fla.; Edward I. Rothschild '42, Winnetka, Ill.; Hermann G. Rudenberg '41, Belmonet Mass.; Allan M. Sachs '42, New York, N.Y.; Robert C.C. St. George Jr. '43, Brooklyn...
George W. Varn 2d. '42, Jacksonvillo, Fla.; Edwin W. Vogler Jr. '42, Carbondale, Ill.; Colton P. Wagner '41, South hampton, L.I., N.Y.: Warren F. Walker Jr. '41, Malden, Mass.; Gordon W. Waltles '42, Hollywood, Calif.; Carl Weihl'42, Cincinnatti, Ohio...
...spring day in 1931 a dust-covered, bowlegged young man, with a hawk nose, buffalo shoulders and long, hairy arms, marched into the St. Louis Cardinals' training camp in Bradentown, Fla. and announced to Manager Frank Frisch: "I'm Martin." Manager Frisch stared. Then he asked Rookie Martin why he was late. Martin explained that he had been detained in jail for riding a freight. "But we sent you railroad tickets." Retorted Martin: "What do you take me for, a dope? I cashed them in and rode for nothing...