Word: plainfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hefty Louis Cortese, 31, had worked for Hearst and for Stage magazine. Dark-haired Jack Begon, 35, had run a shortlived Cosmopolis (Wash.) weekly, had done make-up on the San Francisco Chronicle. Lean, Groucho-mustached Bill de Meza, 28, had reported for the Plainfield (NJ.) Courier News...
...ability in the Latin test alone is Richard A. Webster of Loomis. Honorable mention went to Geoffrey Bush, of Phillips Academy, Andover, and Stephen B. Baxter, of St. Paul's School, for the joint competition, and to George J. Kandzie, of Hingham High School, and William Gifford, of Plainfield (New Jersey) High School, for the single examination award...
They found Mrs. Binker teaching English, spelling, science and music at Central School, Warren Township, eight miles out of Plainfield, N.J. She earns $1,950 a year...
...Lindbergh kidnapping; of pneumonia; in The Bronx. After the trial, the retired schoolmaster sold his account of his experience for magazine serialization, advertised himself in Variety as "the most enigmatic, colorful, and widely publicized personality in America," planned a countrywide vaudeville tour, got only as far as Plainfield...
...Author. Van Wyck Brooks's literary career began with a trip to England when he was twelve. Born in Plainfield, NJ. in 1886, the son of a New York stockbroker, he read Ruskin in England, dreamed of himself writing a history of painting some day. He never wrote it, and his first published work, like that of many of his generation, appeared in St. Nicholas...