Word: havoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What About the Ministry?" When he returned to the U.S., a cousin recalls, he was "a wonderful specimen of stalwart youth, tall, broad-shouldered, fair-haired, blue-eyed, with an irresistible capacity for laughter. ... Of course a young man like that landing in the midst of Boston society played havoc with the fair sex. They fell before him like ninepins." Handsome Cotty entered Lee, Higginson & Co., brokers, as a runner and clerk. Life among the trust funds soon bored him. He visited the famed, silver-tongued rector of Boston's fashionable Trinity Episcopal Church, Phillips Brooks. Their conversation...
Ethel Merman, bouncy, bugle-voiced musicomedienne, cast in the title role of Sadie Thompson, a musical version of Broadway's 1922 smash hit Rain, left the show three weeks before its Philadelphia opening because she did not like the lyrics, was replaced by bright and brassy Musicomedienne June Havoc...
Last week three Army flyers deliberately flew into the hurricane to observe it. The A20 Havoc bomber, bucking winds of 125 m.p.h., reached the eye of the storm off Chesapeake Bay, got safely back to Washington. The flyers (Colonel Lloyd B. Woods, ist Lieut. Frank Record, Major Harry Wexler, a meteorologist) reported that it was not as bad as flying through a summer thunderstorm. Their chief scientific observation: besides its horizontal circular motion, a hurricane has strong upward air currents at its vortex and down currents at its perimeter. The plane was sucked up so steeply at the vortex that...
...Douglas' A26 Invader, an improved version of the reliable A20 Havoc...
...June Havoc, Broadway musicomedienne (Mexican Hay ride), had her broken leg taken out of a plaster cast, went off to Hollywood to star in the cast of Brewster's Millions. Present at the taking-out party: her sister Gypsy Rose Lee, reported by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson to be expecting a child in February and planning to divorce her husband, Actor Alexander Kirkland...