Word: maces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Informer. In Tulsa, Bootlegger Eugene Mace fell afoul of the law when cops, investigating his stuck car horn, looked under the hood, found 1) a large bug causing a short circuit in the horn wires, 2) 16 bottles of whisky...
...weekly Clarks, Neb. News, the story on Myrtle Mace's wedding told more about the groom than the bride. Said the News: "He wore a bluish business suit consisting of coat, vest and pants. The suit had been recently cleaned and pressed . . . Beneath was a freshly laundered white shirt. [His] hair had been recently trimmed by Fred Gilliard, Clarks's barber, and was brushed flat with a part on the left side." The reporter: Editor John Carter. The groom: Editor Carter...
...Rochemont lives and works in Portsmouth, N.H., which played Eaton Falls in his latest picture. His production unit is full of young men, e.g., Associate Producer Borden Mace is 31; one of De Rochemont's insistent beliefs is that Hollywood's hardened arteries need young blood. Now in preparation (under a financing-releasing deal with Columbia Pictures that gives De Rochemont firm control of his "moviemaking): Walk East on Beacon, a thriller, based on FBI files, about attempts to steal a top U.S. secret whose existence the public still does not suspect. Last time De Rochemont made that...
...smashed the Hungarian capital of Buda and thundered on, 170 incredible miles in one week, to the gates of Vienna. In an instant, Europe broke off its feuds. France and the Holy Roman Empire patched up a quick truce; even the Pope and Martin Luther buried the ecclesiastical mace for the time being. Twenty days later it was all over, and everybody felt a bit silly. The invader packed up his plunder and poled off down the Danube...
...bones still tell tales. Peruvian doctors and radiologists who studied No. 49 decided that he was once a soldier, and about 5 ft. 7 in. tall. He suffered a terrible blow from a star-shaped mace that broke his nose and crushed the skull above his right eyebrow. This must have happened during a battle with Andean Indians, for only they used such maces. No. 49 recovered, perhaps with the help of skull surgery, which his people knew something about...