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Word: shawneetown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Fire. In Shawneetown, Ill., Gene Oldham and John Nelson broke into the city jail, robbed a prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...born in Shawneetown, Ill., graduated from the University of Illinois, and got her start in 1925 reviewing music for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. She had no musical training, but she knew what she liked and said so in quotable phrases, sometimes purple. The Journal lost her to Marshall Field's new Chicago Sun. In 1942 Bertie McCormick took her away with a fat boost in salary, which is now over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel's Lady | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

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