Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discretion of publicity and advertising directors to determine what is a reasonable degree of exposure of her pulchritudinous assets . . ." As a sample of its discretion under the new charter, the studio pictured the assets of the first signee, honey-blonde Starlet Peggie Castle, 21, of Appalachia, Va. A spokesman solemnly pledged that no U-I shutters would snap "if a girl doesn't have a figure that would do us any good-or do her any good either...
Pillowcase. In Petersburg, Va., Jewelry Salesman Herbert Streiff asked that local laundries be thoroughly searched for $30,000 in precious stones which he had stuffed into his tourist-camp pillow for safekeeping...
Power of the Pen. In Cleveland, Roy Sparmon, in jail awaiting trial on forgery charges, faced three more similar charges when officials caught him passing bum checks to buy himself cigarettes and magazines. In Roanoke, Va., a few days after M. E. Lisic was released from jail, police rearrested him on charges of forging a check to pay his $5 fine...
Also beyond the budget are uncounted hundreds of other expenditure bills-everything from a crossroads postoffice on up. Biggest of the independent bills is the veterans' pension plan which Mississippi's John Rankin rammed through the House; the VA estimates it would cost an average of $1.4 billion a year...
...Worst Degree." To Pittsburgh-born Billy, his flaming success at 34 is still a mystery. At St. Paul's Polytechnic Institute in Lawrenceville, Va., he was more interested in baseball and football than singing. Says he: "We thought guys in music were a little on the lavender side." He began to change his mind after winning an amateur-night singing contest in Washington's Howard Theater. By 1939, he had joined Earl ("Father") Hines's big band as a double-singing, and playing "trumpet in the worst degree." Says Billy: "I played fourth trumpet...