Word: roofer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wings ... In Calgary, Alta., Roofer Arnold Larson's jail sentence for drunken driving was postponed until he finished fixing the roof of the police station. In Jefferson City, Mo., Willard Drayton, a tower guard at the state penitentiary, was found to be a parole violator from California. In Salt Lake City, Escaped Convict Allen J. Carbis, returning to the Utah State Prison after voluntarily calling up the warden to say "I'm coming home," explained: "I had no right as a man or a convict to let him down that...
...idea of the history came to husky-voiced, 52-year-old Sylvan Hoffman, Manhattan business magazines publisher (Shipping Management, American Roofer, Beach and Pool, Black Fox Magazine}, when he saw a parade of historic headlines in the New York Times 's 90th anniversary edition in 1941. Onetime Texas reporter, not a college graduate, Hoffman tried his idea on some 20 educators and historians, found them sympathetic, then found in C. (for Clinton) Hartley Grattan an enthusiastic collaborator. Author Grattan (The Deadly Parallel, Australia's Foreign Policy, etc.) once called the usual written history "academic mythology . . . because...