Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baylor University he met Nancy Aynesworth, daughter of a prominent Waco, Texas, physician. They were married in 1933 during Mann's senior year at Baylor Law School and went to Laredo, where Tom went into practice with his father and brothers for $100 a month. Then came Pearl Harbor, and Tom drove 150 miles to Corpus Christi to join the Navy. When he took his physical exam, he found he couldn't even read the largest E on the eye chart. "I had read so much in preparing those appellate cases," he says, "that I had a muscle...
...almost too dreamily lovely to believe. The film was actually shot at Blaye on the River Gironde, and in Thirard's frames, the big river, the wide land, the vast sky and the quiet clouds all seem to be shimmering mysteriously in the depths of a tremendous pearl...
...Athenagoras (rhymes with again a chorus) when he was ordained a deacon. He was raised to episcopal rank in 1922, and came to the U.S. in 1931 as Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America. Athenagoras became an American citizen, even tried to enlist after Pearl Harbor, was turned down...
VICTORY AT SEA (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Twenty-two years after Pearl Harbor, a repeat of the highlights of NBC's 26-episode series...
...born and raised in the "Bloody 20th" ward of Chicago's West Side, never finished high school. He liked to think that he had connections with racketeers-the classy kind. He affected the sharp dress of the big-time mobsters, the white-on-white shirts and ties, pearl-grey hats, phony diamond pinkie ring. He dropped hoodlum names like dandruff...