Word: gann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Using fused sticks of dynamite, the terrorists jolted the city three times within 40 minutes. First target was Fire Chief Gann L. Nalley, who had ordered fire hoses turned on the mob marching on Central High last month; an explosion shattered Nalley's city-owned red station wagon parked outside his home. A second blast, 33 minutes later and eight miles away, blew in the glass front of an office building housing Little Rock Mayor Werner C. Knoop's construction firm. Five minutes later dynamite thrown through a ground-floor window partially wrecked the Little Rock school district...
Copilot. In Los Angeles, after arresting Lyle Gann for drunken driving, police searched his car, in the trunk compartment found his wife Wilda, who explained: "I knew he would get drunk, so I stowed away so I could drive him home...
Island in the Sky (Warner) opens with a crash landing in the frozen Canadian North and closes, naturally enough, with the rescue of the survivors. Based on a novel by Ernest Gann, the film gives Director William (Battleground) Wellman a fine documentary chance to explore the hazards of arctic flying and to train his camera on a bleak but beautiful terrain (the picture was made, not in Labrador, but in the Donner Lake region of northern California). What slows things down is the high-blown rhetoric of the script, the tediously familiar characterizations of the flyers, and the endless invisible...
...Democratic victory in 1932 eclipsed Dolly Gann's star, but it did not break her spirit. She campaigned for Landon in 1936, spent much of her energy and determination on the Red Cross and Salvation Army. When her beloved Republicans finally came back to power in Washington last month, she served along with Alice Longworth, now 68, on Ike's inaugural reception committee. Last week 8 7-year-old Dolly Gann died of a sudden heart attack. Alice Longworth, looking back sentimentally over the years, was "very distressed" at the news. Dolly, she said...
...proper disposition of Mr. Gann was also moot. Asked whether he must be invited to all the functions which Dolly attended, Alice Longworth reportedly said: "Mr. Gann's place is in the home." After Dolly's victory, Nebraska's late Senator George Norris, friend of the underprivileged, said: "I had the impression all along that Mrs. Gann would get what she wanted. Mr. Gann, however, is left wholly unprovided for-which is exactly as I feared. I refuse to abandon him in this crisis. I do not intend to let this matter rest until I am assured...