Word: mari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Humphrey Bogart, 45, cinema bad man already engaged to his current leading lady, Lauren ("The Look") Bacall; by his third wife, onetime Cine mactress Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot Bo gart ; after nearly seven years in the mari tal ring; in Las Vegas, Nev. Sluggy 's official charges: "Extreme cruelty." Her unofficial reaction: "A very pleasant mar riage." Died. The Reverend Eric Liddell, 44, Scottish athlete and missionary to China; in a Japanese internment camp. At the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, Theology Student Liddell refused to run his special ty, the 100-meter dash, on Sunday, next day set Olympic...
These, and 53 other folksy, jokesy short stories, essays, articles and poems by authors of the Midwest and Southwest (Jesse Stuart, Eudora Wel.ty, Frank Luther Mott, Mari Sandoz, Albert Halper, August Derleth, et al.), make up Prairie Schooner Caravan, an anthology culled from the University of Nebraska's 17-year-old quarterly, Prairie Schooner ("talent scout of the midlands...
...MARI SANDOZ...
...Frowning down on him was a giant of a man clad in a sheepskin coat, faded polka-dot shirt, blue denim overalls, high laced boots, and a tired tan hat. The man asked for a room. The clerk coughed politely and said they were full up. The old mari turned away. "I been saving a year for this trip," he said, "and I did kinda want to stay where 'H. A. W.'* put up." Washington soon found out why Frank Edward Gimlett, 75, oldtime prospector from Salida, Colo., was in town. Said he: "I came here to find...