Word: jo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NANCY Jo HICHT (13½) Rochester...
...Sculptor Jo Davidson, who has modeled heads of Franklin Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein and Frank Sinatra, wound up a commission in Belgrade, put the finishing touches on a bust of Marshal Tito...
...days after the Erfdeel test, the South African Press Association flashed still more exciting news. A test bore on another farm near Erfdeel had reportedly assayed out even richer. At this, Jo'burg's frantic speculators ran up the Free State Gold Areas shares to a high of $11.28-and Promoter Milne's paper profits were estimated at somewhere between $8 million and $20 million...
...both the Jo'burg and London exchanges the great gold boom collapsed. Free State shares, which had started dropping on news of the false press report, plummeted to $2.62. It remained to be seen how much gold Milne's claim would finally yield. But Milne did not seem worried. He gave a cocktail party for 500 guests and expressed the hope that he could soon arrange for "quotation of my shares on the American market...
Hearth & Home. In Manhattan, Mrs. Betty Jo Hill, suing for alimony, told the court that her husband "ignored me completely and devoted himself exclusively to watching the television programs." In Denver, police learned that Private Sam Fowler, hospitalized with a bullet wound in his hip, had criticized his wife's cooking; she took five shots at him with a .38 revolver. In Vancouver, B.C., Mrs. Constance McLeod got a divorce after testifying that her husband bit a piece out of their marriage certificate and threatened to make her eat the rest...