Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breakfast Special. In Fort Worth, two dozen eggs carried by Mrs. Jeanne Bacon got scrambled in a revolving-door mix-up with Miss Frances Hamm...
Well-dressed, polite, successful, he moved a few years ago into a $100,000 house in Fort Lee, N.J. and settled down to highly polished respectability. But the Kefauver hearings turned an embarrassing spotlight on Joe; with four underworld partners, he was indicted for running a million-dollar gambling empire in New Jersey. Too shrewd to risk a jury trial, he threw himself on the mercy of the court...
...natives of Kennebunkport, Me. (pop. 1,448) did not take to Maurice Sherman, the new owner of the Old Fort Inn. A go-getting type, Sherman was from New York. He took over in 1945, added a cocktail lounge and built a Colonial Room. "Brings New York's night life to Maine," the Old Fort's newfangled folders said...
...porch on the Old Fort Inn overlooks the ocean, but the view was partly blocked by the fine old trees on the summer estates belonging to George A. Elliott Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Mrs. Marion Clapp Collin of Sewickley, Pa. A year ago, a hotel employee climbed the stone wall bordering the estates, cut down five tall spruces on Elliott's property, a fine twin white birch and three maples on Mrs. Collin's property. For good measure, he lopped the branches off quite a few pines and fir trees to clear the view...
Invitation. In Fort Worth, a thief easily made off with $235 from the "Easy Get It Grocery...