Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beautiful Bombing. Nagoya, which suffered as much from wartime bombing as Osaka, is as different from Osaka as Boston's Back Bay is from Reno, Nev. Instead of Osaka's new houses, bustling factories, Nagoya boasts huge areas of rubble-littered ground and rotting weeds dotted with an occasional clapboard shack. The ruins of her factories, which Nagoyans had accepted reluctantly as part of the war, stretch...
Divorced. By Joanne Dru, 26, brunette cinemactress (Red River): Crooner Dick Haymes, 32; after seven years of marriage, three children; in Reno. Joanne announced that "it's probably in the cards" that 1) she will marry Actor John Ireland, and 2) Haymes will marry Nora Eddington Flynn as soon as Nora gets her divorce this month from Cinemactor Errol Flynn...
...found that insight could be at least a partial substitute for sight. "One thing that some blind persons ... do is to withdraw within themselves. I don't agree with this," he decided. Instead, he dug in hard at school work and activities; in his senior year at Reno (Nev.) high school he made a straight-A record and was elected president of his class...
...competing with 14,491 students across the U.S., Bonifacio won one of 117 college scholarships awarded by the Pepsi-Cola Co. Raymond I. Smith, manager of Reno's No. I gambling house, Harold's Club, chipped in for side expenses. Bonifacio went to the University of Nevada in Reno, prepared for law school by majoring in political science, became a good dancer, a fine chess player, the star of the university debating team, and a popular man-about-campus...
...tour de force called The Ox-Bow Incident. Its firm, restrained handling of the problem of good and evil arising from a mob lynching crowned Clark with the halo of great promise. Five years later came The City of Trembling Leaves, a long, rambling study of sensitive youth in Reno, Nev., which made readers wonder if Ox-Bow had not been an accident of perfection. His new novel will keep them wondering...