Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feller of the Cleveland Indians enlisted in the Naval Reserve, was sworn in by Lieut. Commander Gene Tunney...
...Married. Gene Mako, 25, Davis Cup doubles champion in 1937; and Laura Mae Church, 24, actress; in Manhattan. Best man: Paul Lukas. Bride's attendant...
Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, scourge of furriners,* picked up another poker and found it hot. Six men convicted of taking part in nocturnal Ku Klux Klan floggings, three of them now on the chain gang, appealed for clemency. Gene's tender heart was touched. He expressed sympathy for "misguided" floggers, admitted that he had once been one himself. Promising a public hearing on the appeal, he reportedly advised attorneys for the floggers to "have some preachers up here to speak for these...
...over the weekend Gene's fingers began to burn. Monday morning he announced that he would leave the floggers in prison...
Through this dusty plot shuffles blue-eyed Gene Tierney, 21, cast as a sort of desert branch manager of a Bedouin A. & P. Co. chain. Supposedly a half-caste daughter of an Arab trader, she manages to remain as dead-pan as all good Arabs are supposed to be. Of course she turns out to be Miss Graham Fletcher, a British operative...