Word: oxnard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the moment she got off the train in California more than 30 years ago, Lucy Hicks liked Oxnard, and Oxnard liked Lucy. The town was newly rich on sugar beets, and its Chinese and Mexican laborers blew their pay nightly on light ladies, gambling, whiskey and opium. Lucy, a skinny, 6-ft. Kentucky Negro, decided to stay, set out to get a good reputation as a preliminary to getting a bad one. She began cooking for Oxnard's leading families. By the time she opened her first house of prostitution, off Oxnard's crib-bordered China Alley...
DAPHNE F. JOY Oxnard, Calif...
...taught science at St. George's for a year, where he was especially remembered for his ability of instilling great spirit and fight into an otherwise mediocre football team. Enlisting in the Air Corps a year ago, Hedblom received his training at Oxnard, Cal., and was commissioned a lieutenant last May. He was sent to Great Britain as a pilot of a Flying Fortress this summer...
Separated. Cinemactress Ann Sheridan, 27, fire-haired oomphoriginal; and Cinemactor George Brent, 38; after eight months. He has quit cinemacting for the duration to work as a civilian flying instructor at California's Oxnard Field...
...Corps cadets at Oxnard, Calif. voted Vera Zorina owner of "the most beautiful fuselage in the world." Firestone Rubber workers in Akron elected Starlet Alexis Smith "the night shift sweetheart." Gene Tierney prepared to dunk herself, for glamor's sake, in $1,700 worth of essence of gardenias...