Word: howard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked back out, screams and yells began to break the morning quiet. Howard Unruh did not seem to hear the noise at all. He walked slowly on to Maurice Cohen's drugstore...
...psycho," said Howard Unruh with injured dignity."I have a good mind...
...beach at Cap Gris Nez, France. Well displayed across her ample bosom were the words "Black Magic." She dunked a toe in the icy waters, announced that she was not really scared, and struck out in the general direction of Dover, England. For fame, for fortune, and for Scripps-Howard and United Artists, grease-coated, 17-year-old Shirley May France of Somerset, Mass. was trying to swim the English Channel...
...pressagent's dream, and it had been largely dreamed up by pressagents. For her busty boost to the movie Black Magic, United Artists was paying Shirley May ?1,000 ($4,000), which she could not take out of Britain. Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association had anted up some $2,500 in dollars for the exclusive rights to Shirley May's byline and to feature picture coverage. Other wire services, newspapers and magazines had assigned 80 reporters and photographers to cover Shirley...
Died. William P. Odom, 30, globe-girdling veteran flyer; in an airplane crash (his F51 Mustang went out of control at Cleveland's National Air Races); in Berea, Ohio. Odom's round-the-world flight in April 1947 (78 hrs. 55 min.) broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record...