Word: reno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he was confined to a Reno hospital bed last week, Nevada's blustering Senator Pat McCarran still managed -somewhat like the Queen Elizabeth whistling in drydock-to issue a blast at the State Department. At first glance, it seemed fairly routine: the Senator noted with alarm that 18 leftist U.S. labor leaders got visas for England, France and Italy last spring and then went blithely on to Moscow, took part in the Reds' May Day ceremonies and issued anti-American propaganda...
Divorced. Clifford Odets, 45, Broadway playwright (Awake and Sing!, Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy) and Hollywood scripter (None But the Lonely Heart); by Bette Grayson Odets, 32, his second wife (his first: Actress Luise Rainer); after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith arrived in Reno for the usual reason. Her marriage to second husband Joseph Piper Jones had been "a noble experiment that failed." Said she: "It was wartime, and one of those three-day-pass situations." The charge would be incompatibility, not cruelty, "because he's a nice guy. We simply didn't have anything to talk about...
Linda hustles off to a Reno vacation in search of romance. She loses $10,000 to Stephen McNally, owner of a gambling casino, who offers to swap her I.O.U. for a summer of tutoring for his little girl (Gigi Perreau). Linda reluctantly agrees, protesting so much that it takes no cinema connoisseur to see that her annoyance will soon blossom into love...
...Church came to Reno to teach Latin and Greek at the University of Nevada. The classics were all right in their way, but the young professor felt the need of something more robust. One winter, on a dare, he set out to climb the 10,800-ft. peak of Mt. Rose, 19 miles southwest of Reno. He returned from the mission safe & sound, but fascinated by the savagery of the storms and by the "complete purity of the world of snow...