Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the dull, dragging, off-duty hours in the South Pacific, pilots in the Marine "Red Devil" squadron killed time with long bull sessions. When they talked of postwar plans, Captain Kendall Everson always had the" same answer: "I'm going to start an airline." His tent mate, Captain Gerard Ray, liked the idea, often argued its merits with Captain John Daugherty, who thought it overambitious...
...selling them, mind you. I had a route-I didn't stand on a corner prostituting my art." As a boy he did flip-flops with Paul McCullough in the backyard. The two practiced acrobatics, soon got jobs on the small time. For 30 years they appeared in tent shows, minstrel shows, circuses, burlesque, vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies...
Their backgrounds differ also. New York State-born Lindsay, 56, has been close to the footlights since he gave public recitations as a child, of such ditties as When You See a Man in Woe, Walk Right Up and Say Hello. Carrying a spear, working in tent shows, Shakespeare, burlesque, he found his feet in the '20s as a director (Dulcy, Gay Divorce), founded his fortune in the '30s as a playwright (She Loves Me Not). Eighteen years ago he married delicate, blond Dorothy Stickney (the original Mother in Life With Father), whom a wag once described...
...four children into a one-room filling station without heat or plumbing. In Yonkers, N.Y., Frank K. Richardson, Purple Heart veteran, and his wife and child were evicted from their three-room flat, had to separate and live with friends. In Los Angeles, an ex-marine pitched a pup tent in Pershing Square...
Harvard's veteran adviser, George Bender, is investigating the matter, but as yet no solution has been found. "The only encouraging fact in the whole problem is that no one has had to set up a tent in the Yard yet," commented Bender, after taking a quick glance out of the window, to make sure...