Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After Pearl Harbor, Judge McCarthy took leave of absence and signed up with the Marines. McCarthy's war record was good but not spectacular, and he has made the most of it. He shipped overseas as an intelligence officer with a scout-bombing squadron. Nearly ten years older than most of his squadron, "Father Mac" was very popular, always scrounging beer and extra food for his unit, organizing sports, starting bull sessions. Joe volunteered to defend enlisted men, and boasts of how many courts-martial he beat for his clients...
...working for the New York Post in Shanghai when the Japanese interned him along with other American correspondents just after Pearl Harbor. Nineteen days later, on Christmas Eve, 1941, he managed to elude his guards and with the aid of Chinese Guerillas escape to free China. Along the way he had to hide out from Japanese patrols by crouching in sand pits and covering himself with cabbages...
...First Pearl Harbor Extra...
...working on the paper at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, and the Star-Bulletin was the first paper to put out an on-the-scene war extra...
...father was left only one set of Thomas Fortune Ryan's best pearl shirt studs. Reason: he declared publicly that Tycoon Ryan's remarriage two weeks after his wife's death was "the most disrespectful, disgraceful, indecent thing I ever heard...