Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fisherman told MacKenzie, the guide, to be ready at 11 a.m. MacKenzie was ready, but the Old Fisherman was not: he rarely appeared before 3 o'clock in the afternoon. They fished from a launch in Lake Huron, in the clear blue icy waters around Birch Island in Canada's famed Manitoulin district. First trip out the Old Fisherman took five smallmouth black bass, one medium-sized musky. His tackle: a light trout rod, a pearl spoon...
Married. Brigadier General Robert Wood Johnson, 50, president of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings), head of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp.; and Evelyn Vernon Bruff, brunette nightclub dancer; two weeks after his second divorce, day after her first; in Salt Lake City...
...heaviest air raid in history. Upon Germany's northern port of Hamburg, 2,300 tons of bombs fell. Lost: twelve bombers, a low price to pay for the ruin reported by the Germans. London heard a Nazi broadcaster the next morning: "The view over the Alster [famed lake at Hamburg's center] was a terrible sight today. Smoke rose from all burning houses. The tower of the town hall stood in flames. Every minute delayed-action bombs exploded. The Opera House has been burned out and all world-famous entertainment places destroyed...
...train at a junction called Swastika, in northern Ontario. A down-&-out Chinese was sitting there, and when Oakes said he was a gold prospector the Chinese said that if gold was all he wanted there was plenty of it all around the place. Oakes found it, staked out Lake Shore Mine. It became the second-richest gold mine in the world: by 1927 it had paid Oakes $28 million in dividends, and thereafter it yielded him approximately $3 million a year...
Born. To Constance Keane (Veronica Lake) Detlie, 23, honey-haired cinemactress, and Major John Stewart Detlie, 34, peacetime cinemart director: their second child, a 3-lb. premature son; in Hollywood. Mother & son were doing nicely...