Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lyle Tara, a reckless 19-year-old Irish lad, is that possessed of the sea that his mother's heart sometimes aches. Since he was a shaver along the Santa Cruz waterfront, on California's Monterey Bay, fishermen had taught him the ways of sailing, knew him as a lad to trust with a boat. But no boy with the sea in his heart can scan the horizon long without yearning. Lyle Tara yearned to sail the 3,000-odd miles to Cocos Island, off the Costa Rican coast, where legend says pirates of the Spanish Main used...
John P. Powelson -- Miss Mary Lyle, Cambridge...
...Theodore Lyle Hazlett...
Station Manager Walter Lyle who in September 1934 jotted down the license num-ber of the Hauptmann car on a $10 ransom bill. Other awards: $5,000 to Truck Driver William J. Allen who found the kidnapped baby's body in May 1932; $2,000 each to Banktellers William Strong and William Cody who identified ransom bills; $1,000 to Walter Lyle's co-worker John J. 'Lyons for taking the $10 bill to Teller Strong; $1,000 each to four witnesses who helped identify Hauptmann; $500 to a fifth, and the balance of the reward...
...Deerfield, Mass, in the Massachusetts State guide. Idaho director was impassioned, temperamental Novelist Vardis Fisher (In Tragic Life) who rushed out the 431-page Idaho guide ahead of all rivals, promptly started work on a comprehensive Idaho Encyclopedia, scheduled for publication this spring. For Louisiana the director was Novelist Lyle Saxon (Children of Strangers, Fabulous New Orleans), whose guide to New Orleans was complicated by the difficulty of writing about the city's famed red-light district, without giving names and addresses. For Arizona the State director was laconic Novelist Ross Santee, one-time cowboy and rodeo performer...