Word: topeka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday midday, clear and sunny. Many a citizen was idly listening to the radio when the flash came that the Japanese had attacked Hawaii. In Topeka they were listening to The Spirit of '41 and napping on their sofas after dinner. In San Francisco, where it was not quite noon, they were listening to the news, Philharmonic and Strings in Swingtime. In Portland, Maine, where it was cold but still sunny, they were lining up for the movies...
...Capital newshawks had not dug up the story, Topeka, Kans. would have had the shock of its life on Armistice Day. With their secret out, the cavalry at Fort Riley took a new tack, sent the city an ultimatum: "Citizens of Topeka . . . your city is doomed! We will move in and capture it and its people today. . . . Resistance is futile...
...cavalry had Topeka under control. Said Governor Ratner, before he went back to his interrupted breakfast: "We should thank our heavenly father that we have only make-believe blitzkriegs in America today. And we should be eternally grateful to the men who are taking this training so that none will ever reach our shores...
...thereafter his mother died of a gastric ailment. Unsuspecting Mr. Whitlock married his jailbird housekeeper and took out an insurance policy in her favor. But police had found the trusty who had helped her escape. Lyda read about it in the newspapers and left town. Police caught her in Topeka, Kans. Whitlock got an annulment of their marriage...
Married. Peggy Anne Landon, 24, daughter of Kansas' Alfred M. Landon; and William M. Mills Jr., 25, Topeka attorney; in Topeka...