Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Handsome, dark-haired. Polish. Champion Yarosz plans a long rest, followed by a bout against Marcel Thil of France, recognized by the International Boxing Federation as world's middleweight champion. Said Dundee: "A hometown decision. . . . I was robbed...
...reviewing Harold Lloyd's new film, The Cat's Paw, your critic tells how "the son of a Chinese missionary (Harold Lloyd) ... returns to his hometown to find himself a wife...
...first picture manufactured by its star since 1932. Unlike its predecessors, it contains no nerve-wracking escapes from railroad trains, no breathless danglings from skyscraper ledges. It is "straight" comedy about the son of a Chinese missionary and the difficulties he encounters when he returns to his hometown to find himself a wife...
Author John O'Hara, 29, is a rolling stone who has travelled from his hometown Pottsville, Pa. Journal to the Paramount studios in Hollywood. He has contributed stories to The New Yorker, Scrib- ner's, Vanity Fair. "In addition," he says, "I have jerked soda, worked on two railroads and in a steel mill, on an ocean liner and a farm . . . bummed east and west, was a day laborer. I was married once. ..." Appointment in Samarra is his first novel. A volume of his short stories, The Doctor's Son, will be published this autumn...
Died. Clyde ("Pea Ridge"-from Pea Ridge, Ark. his hometown) Day, 32, baseball pitcher for Brooklyn, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other teams, known for his eccentricities and hog-calling; by his own hand (slashing his throat); in Kansas City...