Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Separated. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, 44; and his third wife, Singer Hannah Williams Dempsey: after seven years of marriage; in Manhattan. Mrs. Dempsey plans to sing in a Boston nightclub. Said Dempsey: "I wish her all the luck in the world...
...midnight, when the family trade has presumably departed, Gay New Orleans offers a third show called Mardi Gras Frolic. This is a somewhat bolder type of entertainment. The clown, for example, who earlier in the evening cavorted on a lamppost, now cavorts on a huge statue of a nude. Muriel Page does a dance symbolizing the moth & the flame, in which her wings get burned and the rest of her clothes are hastily doffed to prevent the fire from spreading. But the spirit of burleycue reaches its climax with a "Wonder Woman" named Carrie Finnell, who has no wings...
...Hollywood six stenographers answer six constantly jangling telephones, type out names, descriptions, prices of the items offered, provide an offstage, panic-on-the-stockmarket sound effect. Wiry, fast-talking Narrator Sam Pierce offers the goods to the radio audience, tells how to reach the would-be seller. One-third of the odds & ends offered are bought...
Joyfully the Smitmen of New York, including third son Piet, concluded that some of The Netherlands' skilled cutters had escaped (without their equipment) to London. With relief they got busy on the saw order. It meant that Amsterdam's great diamond-cutting industry had not fallen entirely into enemy hands. To firms like Smit & Sons, which specialize in industrial diamonds, it meant that they could still supply the Allies' war-pressed industrial machine with indispensable diamond tools...
Kirkland was first in basketball, swimming, fencing, winter and spring track, while Lowell captured the honors in squash, indoor baseball, touch football, golf, fall track and wrestling. Winthrop, in third place has garnered high points in football, baseball, hockey, tennis and boxing. The only other sport left after the big three had finished was crew, in which Eliot again was most successful...