Word: frazier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter and the others on Rube had been plenty sore when people claimed there never was any such hero as Reuben James. That was when they named destroyer 607 (laid down at San Francisco last July) Daniel Frazier. Some scholar had dug into the books and found that the Rube James yarn was a phony; that the name of the hero who saved Stephen Decatur was really Daniel Frazier, and that was why the Department called 607 the Daniel Frazier. The boys on Rube refused to believe...
Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 51, No. 1 flagpole-sitter of the trivial '20s, has been spending his Sundays in a Connecticut jail for drunken driving. The arrangement keeps him from losing his steeplejack jobs. Of Brenda Frazier's ex-footballer "Shipwreck" Kelly, Alvin says: "I guess there's plenty of room for two of us as long as he don't go climbin' any poles." ∙ ∙ Racing Driver Kelly Carl Petillo, winner of the Indianapolis speedways in 1935, was charged with "suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon" on a Los Angeles cop. Petillo...
...latest angle of World War II? I refer to the imminence of a "Bundles for Russia" campaign. Further, the probability of a song being composed about there always being a Russia and the recitation by Lynn Fontanne of the White Cliffs of Omsk. . . . Finally, we will have Brenda Frazier startling the Stork set with a most amusing pair of diamond ear clips done in the shape of a crossed hammer and sickle...
Married. Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20; and John Sims Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player whom the bride prefers to call "Jack" rather than "Shipwreck"; in her mother's Manhattan apartment...
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20, perennial Glamor Girl No. 1, finally decided to wed her longtime escort, socialite Insuranceman John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player. Brenda, whose allowance has been $1,000 a week, said they would live on Ship's insurance commissions, at least until she comes into her $3,500,000 next year. He gave her a diamond-paved cabochon emerald ring. She said they would live obscurely. Dancers Tony and Renee de Marco seemed split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they...