Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spreading the Word to the so-called "heathen peoples." Last year the Bible House supplied American missionaries with Bibles in 117 new languages. Recipients of the organization's largesse listed in the annual Librarian's report include both the Chinese Mission of New England, as well as the Norfolk Prison Colony of the Commonwealth...
...informing against the three prisoners who planned to escape, not guilty of hitting four of his accusers, but guilty of beating two of them. Last week, it gave him just about the stiffest sentence it could: ten months in the Navy's Retraining Command (correction school) at Norfolk, Va., to be followed by dishonorable discharge...
...with the cold disapproval of a Romanov, "is not to our liking." While the Daily Express polled its readers on whether the Princess should . be married in rationed austerity or regal state ("Life is too drab," it warned, "to pass up this chance for having fun"), the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, called a committee to arrange for an October wedding in Westminster Abbey, complete with open landaus, guards and 500 guests...
...Worried." Some of his competitors got up at 6 a.m. to get in some practice on the fast cork rings out by the boardwalk. Larry was used to getting up early: his dad is a brakeman on the Norfolk & Western. He didn't know his rivals' names, and he didn't bother to find out: he addressed them by the cities pinned on their sweaters, Chicago, Monongahela, Steubenville. Larry was one of the smallest of the lot, but unlike the older competitors he did not worry about losing; he just thought about how to win. Said...
Married. Captain John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, 24, only son of the U.S. Army's chief of staff; and Barbara Jean Thompson, 20, a colonel's daughter; both for the first time; at Fort Monroe, near Norfolk...