Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alarm Burglar. In Yonkers, N.Y., a burglar ransacked a house's silver, linen and other valuables, made off with a single prize : the alarm clock...
Illinois Democrats put aside local squabbles and asked their showiest vote-getter to run for governor. Cook County's third-term Attorney Thomas James ("Honest Tom") Courtney, 49, whose silver hair and slanted smile are not lost on feminine voters, flatly demanded the support of Colonel Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News and Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. Getting it, he graciously accepted the draft. If he wins the Democratic primary, he will fight it out next November with the G.O.P.'s handsome, grey Governor Dwight Green, able, amiable yes-man of Colonel Robert R. McCormick...
...technical sergeant who said he was Stanley Hawrylytz turned up on the first show with a tale of knocking off a igman Jap patrol on Kiska, for which (he said) he got a Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, a Purple Heart and a serious foot wound. He said his home was in Erie, Pa. He wanted a job in Alaska. He got an offer. U.S. Army records later disclosed that his right name was Harvilick, his home address was actually Springboro, Pa., there was no record of overseas service or citations. And there were, of course, no live Japs...
...gold miner, Holywood stunt man, forest ranger--he has at one time or another been all of these. Instead of working his way through college by hashing, selling clothes, or firing furnaces aces, he worked his way through two years at Nevada School of Mines by mining gold and silver at Carson City and Virginia City. After this he gave prospecting a try, trudging through various parts of Arizona, New Mexico Colorado, California, and Nevada. Finding this life too tame, he turned to studying in Hollywood, where among other things he staged the fights and appeared in all the Tarzan...
...white tie and tails and stood affably in St. George's parish house while admirers thronged around in celebration of his 50th anniversary. A delegation of Negroes and whites had come all the way from his native Erie. The Erie Club of New York sent him a silver-banded cane. Fellow parishioners presented a $1,500 check. New York's Bishop William T. Manning made a speech. The choir broke into Burleigh's deft, contrapuntal choral ode, Ethiopia's Paean of Exaltation. In a baritone that was still vibrant, Harry Burleigh himself sang Go Down Moses...