Word: w
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naval Academy discharged Midshipman Frederick W. Lauer Jr., a senior, who had bought up 400 extra tickets to the Navy-Penn game from lower classmen at $3.60 apiece for sale to a scalper. Possible profit: at $20 a ticket...
...Dawson Springs, Ky., Senator Alben W. Barkley very nearly missed reaching his 70th birthday next fortnight: the auto he was riding in was struck by another on a bridge. The other plunged 35 feet, injuring the driver's head; Barkley's car stayed aloft, with the Senator inside, uninjured but shaken...
Edith Gwynn, a short, beryllium-hard brunette, in her late 30s, writes with the brash confidence of a columnist who knows she can't be fired. Her job, which pays about $300 a week, is guaranteed by her divorce settlement with the Reporter's Publisher W. R. ("Billy") Wilkerson. Natty, collie-eyed Billy has had plenty of experience with divorce settlements (his present wife is No. 5), but he never made a better one. Edie Gwynn's scatterbrained manner, quick bursts of nervous laughter and lavishly indiscriminate endearments ("lambie pie, beautiful cookie") hide a razor-sharp nose...
...Godolphin School in Hammersmith, Irish Poet W. B. Yeats was known among his English classmates as "mad Yeats." The school, he wrote, "was an obscene bullying place, where a big boy would hit a small boy in the wind to see him double up, and where certain boys, too young for any emotion of sex, would sing the dirty songs of the streets...
Married. Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin, 38, pianist-bandleader; and Maria Teresa ("Chiquita") Paske-Smith Winn, 34, daughter of a onetime British Minister to Colombia; both for the second time; at the Manhattan home of Commerce Secretary W. Averell Harriman, who gave the bride away...