Word: raven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Leonard Raven-Hill, 75, Punch cartoonist for 40 years; on the Isle of Wight...
...another Golden Era of sport is to follow World War II, as it did World War I, the Paavo Nurmi of tomorrow may well be raven-haired Leslie MacMitchell, who developed his legs running up & down the subway stairs of his native Manhattan...
After lingering nine days, haggard, platinum-blonde Raven Sherman, heroine of Terry and the Pirates, died of injuries in the Chinese mountains. At Chicago's Loyola University some 200 students faced the east, stood with heads bowed in memoriam...
...hand, and the Governor never passes up a chance to salute the heroes of Texas in song & story. On his way to memorial services at the battlefield he stopped at a shacklike house near Houston. There dwelt General Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, only surviving son of Sam Houston, the Raven, the hero of San Jacinto and the greatest Texan of them all. The old man, who paints, writes history, and fusses with people about his father, talked for ten minutes with the Governor. Then O'Daniel loitered for an hour in a filling station near...
Diego Rivera is a potbellied, brown-skinned Mexican artist whose murals have gained him fame, controversy, a good living. In his pink & blue studio-houses near Mexico City, he has lately enjoyed the services of a beauteous, raven-tressed Indian model named Nieves (pronounced Nyay'-vezz); the visits of numerous young U. S. women, devotees of art; and notoriety spiced with danger. The danger came from Mexican Stalinists, who, according to ex-Communist Rivera, would like nothing more than to put him out of the way. With the cooperation of Mexican police, they actually did land him in heavy...