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...opinion as a native of Kokomo (rhymes with ho-ho-ho) is that a rhyming dictionary ain't a good thing to tour Indiana with. In that state, where Peru rhymes with Pee-roo, Brazil rhymes not so much with Hazel as Bray-zill...
...similar period in the division's history. Chrysler sales were running upwards of 70% over last year. To keep up with the increasing demand, Chrysler will expand further. President Lester Lum (Tex) Colbert announced that Chrysler will build an 800,000-sq. ft. automatic-transmission plant in Kokomo, Ind., have it in operation for 1956 models...
...days, before pool had its name changed and went highbrow, competition in all forms of billiards was keener. And the best shark in the business was not too proud to indulge in a little gamesmanship. There was "Kokomo Joe" Sachs, who splashed his hands so freely with talcum powder that he managed to bathe his opponents and the table as well. "The whole joint," recalled one victim, "looked like an explosion in a flour factory." There was Robert Cannafax, who would pull a knife and stab himself in his wooden leg when his game went bad. Everyone knew...
Soft-voiced Major General William E. Kepner, 57, was a soldier's soldier before he became an airman's airman. He began his military career at 16 when he ran away from Kokomo (Ind.) High School and joined the Marine Corps. Seven years later he marched to the Mexican border with the Indiana National Guard. In 1918 he was an infantry captain in France, won a Distinguished Service Cross, was bayoneted in the back and had half his jaw shot off. After World War I he took...
...Kokomo & Kalamazoo. Detroit's show was more than a get-together of well-known designing names. There were chairs, rugs, dishes, kitchenware and other useful objects from Kokomo, Kankakee and Kalamazoo, as well as from the designing centers of New York, Detroit and Los Angeles. Garbage containers and stainless-steel pails fashioned by factory workers in Sheboygan got as much display as custom fabrics and ceramics from Manhattan's Madison Avenue...