Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of "revolutionary developments in underwater warfare," the Navy last week drew one light carrier and eight destroyers out of mothballs. To help provide the men to man them, the Navy retired the battleship Iowa to the inactive list...
Commented the New York Herald Tribune, which has previously taken a skeptical view of the committee's work: "The committee has turned up a great deal more than a 'red herring' . . . has been unearthing important facts . . . has thrown valuable light upon the Communist problem...
...Lights Out. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Bernice Claxton won a divorce when she charged that her husband made her unscrew the light bulbs to save wear & tear on the switches...
...Muny has tried to put on grand opera only four times, and with little success. Instead, it offers a first-rate production of light opera and musical comedy-with first-rate casts. Some summer-opera alumni: Irene Dunne, Gary Grant (he was then Archie Leach), Allan Jones...
Died. May de Sousa, 66, light-opera favorite at the turn of the century; of starvation; in a Chicago charity ward. A detective's daughter, she first sang in vaudeville, moved on to Broadway, hit her peak touring Europe in such productions as The Wizard of Oz and The Tenderfoot. She retired in 1918, moved to Shanghai, returned to the U.S. penniless in 1943, and set to work as a scrubwoman...