Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, hatchet-faced Private Lew Jenkins of Sweetwater, Tex. took a furlough from his job of shoeing horses at the U. S. Army's Fort Bliss. He went to Dallas to see the sights. After a few days he was broke, went to a matchmaker to ask for a fight so that he would have a place to flop at night. Back at his post, Private Jenkins was dissatisfied. The $15 he got for that one fight in Dallas was about two weeks' pay in the Army. A few weeks later, Private Jenkins bought himself...
...York matchmakers, Lew Jenkins described himself as an "ornery cuss," was finally given a chance on a Tuesday-night card in Long Island City's Queensboro Arena. He won his first fight, his second, his third. By the time he had won six in a row, New York managers sat up and took notice. Two months ago, when he knocked out Tippy Larkin in one round at Madison Square Garden for his tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs...
Proud of its title of the "Hoosier Athens" is Crawfordsville, Ind. (pop. 10,000), home of the late great Best-Seller General Lew Wallace (Ben Hur). Crawfords ville's biggest office building-five stories-is owned by Ben Hur Life Association. The town's prettiest buildings are on the campus of Wabash College. Two or three times a year, one of these buildings, a prim chapel seating 1,100 people, becomes Crawfordsville's concert hall. There last fortnight, Crawfordsville culture glowed at its brightest. In the chapel 650 townsfolk heard the season's second and final...
Bigger moment in Joan's life was her marriage last year to Brian Aherne. The Ahernes are one of Hollywood's happiest married couples. Eschewing Hollywood hotspots, they prefer at homes with the quieter younger set. With Jane Bryan, Margaret Lindsay, Beverly Roberts, Lew Ayres, John Arledge and others, they play games, eat cheese and crackers, listen to Joan's puns, which come every few minutes. Typical pun was struck off while Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic were discussing what fun Critic George Jean Nathan has tearing them apart. Quipped Joan: "South of the Nathan and Dixon...
Divorced. Cinemactor Lew Ayres; by Cinemactress Ginger Rogers, previously married to Vaudeville Actor Edward Culpepper; after five years; in Los Angeles. Grounds: desertion. Said she: "We really never were very happy." Ginger's mother testified: "He told me he didn't want her any more and that I could have her for keeps...