Word: moran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago, Hudson Dealer Jim Moran offered to transport any customer free from any point in the U.S., pay for his stay in Chicago until his car was delivered. In Detroit, the McMillan Packard agency distributed self-addressed postcards to its old customers, paid them $20 apiece for every tipoff that led to a sale. It looked as if the shakeout in the one big industry not yet affected by the recession might...
...Curvaceous Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moran, 25, the most eye-filling thing in women's tennis since Britain's Kay Stammers Menzies retired. Since the memorable lace-pantie experiment at Wimbledon (TIME, July 4), Gussie has switched back to shorts, promises to bear down on her tennis, which she thinks has suffered from too much publicity...
Died. George Moran, 67, straight man of the richly nostalgic radio and vaudeville black-face comedy team of Moran & Mack (The Two Black Crows); of a stroke; in Oakland, Calif. The act, belly laugh of the Ziegfeld Follies in the '20s, folded in 1934 when Charles E. Mack was killed in an automobile accident...
Died. Charles B. Moran, 70, longtime (1916-39) National League baseball umpire ("It ain't nothing until I call it"); of a heart ailment; in Horse Cave, Ky. A onetime big-league ballplayer (he pitched and caught for the Cardinals, 1903-08), colorful, rasp-voiced "Uncle Charley" spent his off-seasons coaching football (his Centre College, Ky. eleven beat Harvard's great 1921 grid team 6-0-), helped develop Centre's famed "Bo" McMillin...
Akillian, Bernard, Cabot, Charles Codman, Jr., Carduff, Wendell Lee, Connolly, John Michael, Cook, Theodore Levl, Jr., Donelan, John Joseph, Jr. (Captain), Goodman, William 3d, Groton, Calvert Cottrell, Harris, Nathantel Lothrop, Jr., Bickey, William Moran, Howland, Neil, Morrison, Gordon Mackey, Jr., Robinson, Ralph Lindsay Flanders, Simonds, Jonsthan Otis, Stern, Roger Waldstein, Switzer, Alan Alexander, Jr., Thompson, Robert Burlis, Walsh, Charles Sario, Jr., Webb, John Crawford, Jr., Wise, Timothy John Willard. Young, Henry Arthur, Chapin, Aldus Riggins (Manager...