Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orson Welles threw up a tent and some tintype booths on a Los Angeles lot and started a brave one-man revival of prestidigitatorial entertainment, but not at tent-show prices. Service men got in free; the rest paid $11 a seat opening night, a $5.50 top thereafter. For that...
Two years ago, a Mexican ball club lured Gibson away from the Grays. The Grays threatened to drag him to court if he did not return. Cum Posey finally appealed to Sumner Welles. ". . . However," moaned the Pittsburgh Courier, "when the big fuss started, this Government launched a gigantic 'good...
When the Japs bombed the Philippines, Laubach was visiting the U.S. after 25 years of missionary and literacy work on the Philippine island of Mindanao, in India, Africa, the Near East. He armed himself with a letter from Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, took on the 90,000,000...
In the columned State Department Building friends of Under Secretary Sumner Welles found him practically wreathed in smiles.
On his 28th birthday Orson Welles unstrapped himself from a brace that keeps one of his vertebrae in line, tried to touch his toes for examining Army doctors, got as far ("Ouch!") as his knees, presently went home a 4-F.