Word: sams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicagoans, Father Dearborn is as familiar as Uncle Sam. In newspaper cartoons he is a corn-fed bumpkin in a plug hat and jack boots, wearing a spade beard. Who originated the symbol of Chicago is a mystery. John T. McCutcheon, dean of Chicago cartoonists, remembers him as far back as 1895, denies parentage. Many a Chicagoan was surprised and pleased last week to learn that Father Dearborn was not only a cartoon but a real though long-buried hero, who wore a cocked hat and a peruke and the uniform of the Continental Army. He was never in Chicago...
...newspapers fumed about Tsar Petrillo in a censor's role, Jimmy announced for local consumption that he was just joking. Impresario White took him at his word, at week's end put John L. Lewis back in the Scandals, waited to see what would happen. Said Manager Sam Gerson, as host to The Man Who Came to Dinner: "An actor used to say, 'Well, I guess John Lewis won't like that.' Now he's going to say, 'Well, I guess Mr. Petrillo won't like that...
...Hollywood, built over hot mineral springs and fitted for healthful Hollywood holidays with everything from mud baths to bars, from deck chairs to ski slides, minimum rates $13 a day (American plan). At Arrowhead for the opening were such gentry as Arturo Toscanini, Ernst Lubitsch, Edward G. Robinson, Sam Goldwyn. A few days later Arrowhead opened its "curatory," complete with steam caves in which magnates and stars began tentatively to stew...
...same court where they were bagged just three years ago almost to a day, a new flock of Blackbirds, with a winning streak of 42, will meet Southern California, year in & year out one of the most formidable basketball teams in the country. If they can outshoot Sam Barry's Trojans, Clair Bee's boys will earn their reputation as a college basketball team second to none...
Although Nelson was the lowest scoring pro, he was not the top money winner of the year. His tournament winnings of $9,444 were surpassed by those of Henry Picard ($10,303), Sam Snead ($9,712), Ralph Guldahl...