Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undistinguished steel and brass implement, hammer-headed and weighing 16 oz. It has been causing Sam some embarrassment, because the name of the manufacturer stamped on it is not that of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., for which Sam works. But to Sam, that putter is the difference. He borrowed it from a Chicago pro, Stan Curtis, in Tucson last February, and it cured his tendency to tighten up on the greens...
Said the News: "There are 16 detectives accepting graft in the Miami police department. This is one-quarter of the entire detective bureau . . ." The News did not name the 16, but it did not leave much room for doubt either: "Five of the graft-takers are in District Two. There are six [detectives] in this district...
Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 38, Irish-born cinemactress, sometime cine-mate of Tarzan, and John Villiers Farrow, 43, Australian-born Hollywood writer-director (Wake Island, The Big Clock): their sixth child, third daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Stephanie Margarita. Weight...
...gasped a little hysterically, 'who the hell is this Buckley anyway, and where the hell does he come from-and who does he think is going to support him? If it's me he's got another guess coming. And who in God's name...
...Name. In Richmond, Va., after recruiting officers turned him down for the second time, 16-year-old John Paul Jones agreed to wait another year to join the Navy...