Word: laking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Geneva...
Blonde Veronica Lake (Mrs. John Detlie), mother of a 22-month-old girl, tripped over a studio cable, was rushed to a Hollywood hospital. Doctors hoped that blood transfusions would forestall premature birth of her August baby...
Died. Rudger Clawson, 86, president of the Council of Twelve Apostles of the Latter-day Saints; in his native Salt Lake City. Son of an associate of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, one of the last who saw Brigham Young, plain, gentle, white-thatched Apostle Clawson served most of a four-year Federal sentence for bigamy committed in 1883. Long an able hierarch, in his lifetime he traveled 576,000 miles on church business...
...eight). This put Long John in the rockhog hall of fame. Two years ago he started the western end of the Alva Adams tunnel, a 13-mile tube 13,000 ft. beneath the crest of the Rockies. The Adams tunnel Government project intended to carry enough water from Grand Lake to Estes Park to irrigate 615,000 acres of Colorado sugar beets and to supply 900,000,000 k.w.h. of electricity. War stopped the work...
...editions at Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press, has held few full-time jobs since, except for eight years' association with the late William E. Rudge (to whom Paragraphs is dedicated). A widower, he now spends most of his time at his New Fairfield, Conn, house near Candlewood Lake. Honored by degrees from Yale, Purdue and Harvard, he plans another lectern Bible, is finishing up odds & ends of jobs started years ago. His biggest immediate problem: to get his power lawn mower working so that he can run it over his Connecticut acre of grass...