Word: vera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal, a new revue called the Ice Vanities, produced by Bill O'Brien (promoter of the Vines-Perry professional tennis tours) and featuring Prague's Vera Hruba and Ottawa's Guy Owen, played to sellout crowds in the eighth stop of its U. S. and Canadian tour...
...Orleans' oldest daily newspaper (founded 1837) is the morning Times-Picayune, and no competitor has ever seriously challenged its dominance. The Picayune* sent George Wilkins Kendall, reputedly the first U. S. war correspondent, to Vera Cruz in 1847, published the peace treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo before the President of the U. S. even saw it. Before there was a telegraph, the Picayune used to set up stories in type on steamers bound from Mobile to New Orleans, send them galloping through the streets to press by team and wagon...
...Milwaukee was imprisoned for life. His grandmother moved heaven and earth and the Journal did its bit to get Dick out, failed to persuade three successive Governors to parole or pardon him. Pampered in prison but ailing, Dick Gallogly in a hospital last May married 23-year-old Vera Hunt, a onetime schoolteacher who met him while visiting a Georgia prison seven years ago, had lived with his mother since 1933. Last week, the Grays and the Journal having wangled Dick Gallogly a third parole hearing, he was up in Atlanta before Governor E. D. Rivers. The hearing ended almost...
EUROPE IN RETREAT-Vera M/c/)e/es Dean-Knopf ($2). Origins of Munich, by a Foreign Policy Association expert, for whom the pros & cons add up thus: the need of "fundamental transformation of the existing international economic order...
Ballerina Vera Zorina (real name: Eva Brigitta Hartwig), nimble-limbed star of I Married an Angel, announced that on her forthcoming trip to Europe she hopes to spend much of the time in the nude. In Chicago she has ordered a is-ft. canvas roof enclosure, on the Normandie a private sundeck. Said she: "It [sun bathing] has been wonderful for my health. My only difficulty [in Hollywood] has been with a nasty man in a red airplane...