Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valuable piece of property. Sammons has been offered $1,000,000 for it. Founded in 1897 by Albert Nelson Marquis, a Cincinnati calendar and directory publisher, Who's Who was already firmly established when Sammons joined the firm in 1926. At that time Marquis was in his 70s. Five years later Sammons took over entirely, and made it a family affair (Founder Marquis became "editor emeritus." died in 1943). Editor Sammons' wife Dorothy. 66. is the obituary expert for the sister book, Who Was Who in America, a listing of the famous dead, while his son Wheeler...
...time is easygoing 1909, but even Danny senses that the going is hard for his folks. Grandfather Tom O'Flaherty is in his 70s and can hold his own only at the local booze parlor. Grandmother Mary is a termagant who keeps "givin' him hell . . . because that's the way you have to treat a man." Aunt Margaret is in love with a man who is not only married but a "black Protestant devil" besides, and pretty Aunt Louise is dying of TB. As for Uncle Al, a shoe salesman who foots most of the bills...
Lesbia learned golf from her father, an ex-caddy and high-70s amateur named Joe Lobo (the Spanish surname means wolf). Her first big victory came two years ago in the Mexican Women's Amateur, when Lesbia was only a junior in San Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School. Since then, Joe Lobo, an engraver who lives above his own shop, has been working overtime to finance his daughter's travel to tournaments. Nowadays Lesbia also gets a helping hand from admiring fellow Texans, who give her a lift to tournaments, sometimes arrange for her to stay...
...Worker draws a modern parallel: "Just as the cattle barons of the '70s, '80s and '90s sought to appropriate unto themselves the range of the public domain, so today, under the Eisenhower Administration, are the modern barons seeking to convert their grazing permits in national parks and other public areas to form a permanent tax-free title." But the main trouble: The film "tends to glorify individual-as opposed to collective-action...
...occasional players: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith; Banker Clifford Roberts; Newspaper Executive William E. Robinson, Bridge Master Oswald Jacoby. (Says Jacoby: "The President plays better bridge than golf; he tries to break 90 at golf; at bridge you would say he plays in the 70s...