Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that I will have to tell you the best gag I heard this week and that happened in a Tactics Class . . . GORDON McDONOUGH was a bit puzzled as to definitions of ship manenvers and asked the question of the instructor, "Does the guide of ships in a line of bearing always bear to the right just like we do out in the Yard?" . . . (Ed. note: we hope not) . . . could a ship ever get in and out of those trees like...
...week, under Kirkham's eye, a department of prosthesis* was being organized at the hospital. Besides designing new faces, by way of occupational therapy the department will teach injured men to make their own inlays. The Navy has assigned Lieut. Commander Michael Gurdin, peacetime plastic surgeon, and Lieut. Gordon Bau, peacetime head of Warner Bros. make-up department, to study Dawn's methods in Hollywood...
...Wolff, who for 18 years has searched for a means of reading people's inner personality from their appearance, reports his results in The Expression of Personality (Harper; $3.50). Eminent psychologists like Harvard's Gordon Allport, consider his book a milestone in "depth psychology" (study of the subconscious...
...sponsor is a Houston rice broker named Gordon L. Harwell. A born pot-watcher, Harwell used to sit up late nights with a pressure cooker and a potful of paddy (rice in the husk) trying to cook up an improvement on conventional milling methods. In orthodox rice milling, machines first remove the husk (containing vitamin Bi), then the germ and several coats of bran (rich in fat, minerals and vitamin B complex), finally give forth a polished white kernel which has lost most of the vitamins and minerals in the original rough grain. (The husks are burned; the bran...
Every time that the Lads get an afternoon off around here the race track promoters plan on trips to Florida next year with the take from those Salts of the Turf Bets. . . . Witnesseth GORDON McDONOUGH and JOHN O'NEIL who will not believe that their nag is in the bag when playing the favorites the next time...