Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conjuror and Scene Painter. British Author Cameron was born (1898) in London's dingy East End, slept with his unemployed parents in the workhouse. Later he worked as street-hawker, odd-job boy in a tin-plate factory, at a lumberyard, as a dispatcher, bartender, conjuror. He also painted scenery for Cavalcade, Victoria Regina, The Miracle and "practically all the best-known English and American shows between 1930 and 1939." Now he is lecturing in Upsala, Sweden...
Aimee Semple MacPherson, 53, Los Angeles evangelist-in-white who prefers folding money in the collection plate, was back on the job after a tough bout with tropical fever: "I have been close to the valley of the shadow...
...artist then drew 52 "airplane" stamps on a sheet ten inches wide, two inches long. SS-men interrupted at the plate-&-proof stage. The seal was to have been printed, they learned, on the same sort of grey-blue paper used by the U.S. Government, by the "kiss-impression" method, a light blue application of the cut which would make the outline of the eagle faint but discernible. The airplane cut would be superimposed. The completed work of art would have been so nearly exact a duplicate of a sheet of legitimate ration stamps that, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney...
...Armed Whacker. Pete Gray of Nanticoke, Pa., a regular outfielder for the Memphis Chicks, knocked a homer over a 20-ft. fence 330 ft. from home plate in a Southern Association game at Chattanooga's Engel Stadium. He has no right arm. Batting against Pitcher Bob Albertson of the Chattanooga Lookouts, the cocky, 28-year-old slugger let two wild ones go by, then clouted his way around on the kind of pitch he dreams about-waist-high and a little inside. Said Gray: "It sure felt good...
Heavy hitters for the Crimson were rightfielder Sherm Clark and catcher Bill Harding, each with two hits in four trips to the plate. Lestfielder Klepper led the Seabees attack, also with two for four. HARVARD ab li po a e Clark, rf 4 2 1 0 0 Flattery, rb 5 0 7 0 0 Chapple, 2b 5 1 1 2 0 Boston, cf 2 1 1 0 0 Lutz, 3b 4 1 3 4 0 Ross 1 0 0 0 0 Harding, c 4 2 7 2 0 Conlon, lf 4 0 1 0 0 Falsey...