Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around Pittsburgh, Ray Sprigle (rhymes with wiggle) is known as a hard-digging, hell-for-leather newsman. He once had himself admitted to a psychopathic hospital, so that he could expose conditions there. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black remembers him as the man who went to Alabama in 1937, dug up Black's past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, and won a Pulitzer Prize...
...gaudy, rustic-looking eccentric, Ray Sprigle has been wearing a ten-gallon sombrero for 15 years, ever since he went to Arizona to solve a Pittsburgh murder. The ten-gallon hat, a silver-ringed cane, and a fuming corncob pipe are the trademarks of the Post-Gazette's 58-year-old star reporter. To disguise himself for his latest assignment-to expose Pittsburgh's lively black market in meat-he gave up hat and cane, but not his pipe...
...armed forces are Lieutenant (jg) Robert K. Hall, formerly assistant director of the Commission of English Language Studies here; Edwin Howiti, formerly an instructor in Mathematicis and now working for the Army Air Forces; Lieutenant Barnaby C. Keeney, AUS, a former instructor in History here; and Lieutenant Gordon H. Ray '32, USNR, formerly an instructor in English...
ROBINSON CRUSOE, USN - as told to Blake Clark by George Ray Tweed -Whittlesey House...
...story of George Ray Tweed, the Navy radioman, who spent two and a half years on Jap-held Guam (TIME, Aug. 21) is as packed with adventure, suspense and endurance as Robinson Crusoe's own. In many respects Crusoe's 20th-Century counterpart went Crusoe one better. Tweed had no handy wrecked ship from which to salvage an "abundance of hatchets," nails, knives and other carpenter's tools. The only tool he had to build some of his furniture was a machete...