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...Only a few bills were referred by the House parliamentarians to the HUAC in the 84th and 85th Congresses...
Died. Richard Leo Simon, 61, co-founder with M. Lincoln Schuster of Simon & Schuster, Inc. publishing house, a former piano and book salesman who in 1924 helped launch the firm with the world's first crossword-puzzle collection (an immediate bestseller now in its 84th edition), concentrated largely on nonfiction and self-improvement works (Wendell Willkie's One World, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People), pioneered paperback publication with Pocket Books in 1939; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...
...With surprising ease, Bally Ache sprinted to a four-length victory in the 84th Preakness at Baltimore's Pimlico to gladden the hearts of the syndicate that had bought him for $1,250,000 a fortnight ago. Kentucky Derby Winner Venetian Way floundered home fifth...
...implying that the Times story misquoted the Chancellor, but instead, the transcript confirmed that Adenauer had thought Erhard lacked enough "experience" and "one has to be cautious." Cried Erhard: "It's bad democratic practice if the impression circulates abroad that here's a man in his 84th year and after him there will be nothing." Added Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of the Bundestag: Adenauer is "going too far." What looked to be a storm dying out, said Gerstenmaier, is now a storm "swelling to a head...
...Phil Ford was no novice at the entertainment game either. When he was a kid around Alameda, Calif., his aunt ran a dancing school, and the Depression saw him doing soft-shoe routines at small theaters to help buy the family groceries. World War II dumped him into the 84th Division, where the commanding general, Alexander Boiling, used to join Sergeant Ford in little skits. Chances are they also burdened Phil with his present style of humor. Sample...