Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silver Lining. In Milwaukee, Joseph Lobner, after a three-year stomachache, finally had himself Xrayed, found he had swallowed a fork...
Dingdong Chimes. At twilight on his first day in Bali, a flock of pigeons circled over McPhee, trailing behind them a shining rain of silver music. Tiny bells were tied to the pigeons' feet and bamboo whistles were attached to their tails...
When smooth, silver-haired Richard Wilton Clarke went on vacation last month, he had one of the big jobs in U.S. journalism - managing editor of the New York Daily News. Last week, when he got back, he had a bigger one: executive editor, secretary of the board and a director of the giant News Syndicate Co. Adman Roy Holliss, head man since Captain Joseph M. Patterson's death last spring, had been killed in an auto crash; in the reshuffling of executives that followed, Clarke's stock had gone way up (to about $150,000 a year...
...graduated from Harvard magna cum laude; at the University of Virginia Law School he was editor of the Law Review and president of his class. He enlisted in the Navy the day after Pearl Harbor, took part in twelve major engagements, came back with the Purple Heart, the Silver Star and a Presidential Citation...
...pages of comics, along with a nubbin of news. (And moved a nightclub comedian to crack: "I'm so weak I can't even lift a copy of today's Mirror V) Whistling shrilly to keep up its courage, the starveling Mirror ran a daily silver-lining box. Sample: "The Mirror . . . has become a collector's item. In time, the paper which you buy for 2? . . will be sold by dealers in rare issues for $5 and $10 a copy...