Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ringleader was the nine-year-old son of a U.S. officer living down the hall from Van Fleet. He and his fellow desperadoes, high-spirited American youngsters, had already made a name for themselves as "Athens' Dead End Kids." Written with a mother's lipstick, the note had been slipped under the general's door while the gang was at play in the corridor. Action recommended: sound spankings. Action taken: as recommended...
Smith with 15 field goals and nine fouls in four games, is fourteenth behind Columbia's Sherry Marshall. Prior, who has played the same number of games, has 14 field goals and nine free throws for a sixteenth-place point total...
...Manhattan, Bernarr Macfadden, 80, back from Florida with his bride of nine months, Jonnie Lee, 42, allowed "three days are enough for a second honeymoon...
Composer-Lyricist Porter is a loyal patron of his own art because, after writing the songs for 22 shows and nine movies, he is still just a little stagestruck. He also combines genuine modesty about his work with an amateur's enthusiasm for hearing it played and sung by first-rate professionals. At the opening performance of Kiss Me, Kate four weeks ago, he turned up in evening dress and settled himself happily down front in the midst of his large, glittering party. He was the picture of relaxed enjoyment, and a sight to amaze his fellow composers...
Died. Mrs. Flora Drummond, 70, militant British suffragette who served nine prison sentences during her campaign to get votes for women; in Carradale, Scotland. "General" Drummond led showy demonstrations while mounted on a white horse, once chained herself in front of 10 Downing St., once tried to wrap up two of her colleagues and mail them by parcel post to the Prime Minister...