Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thornton did little besides sashay around in cowboy boots and talk about his (very valid) friendship with Ike. But voters remembered that Texasborn Dan Thornton spends much of his time away from Colorado and that, as governor, he had tried to revise the bookkeeping on Colorado's old-age-pension system. They sent Democrat John Carroll, plain-spoken and obviously homegrown, to the Senate...
...lean and attractive, and sporting a yard-long pony tail, she explains something of herself as she entertains her audience. She stems from a long line of show people, went on the road with her Italian-comedienne mother as a dancer at the age of five. Caterina is the youngest of four children, was born in Paris where the family now makes its comfortable home. There, after World War II, Caterina began to exploit her pretty voice, learned the American jazz style from recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. By 1952, Caterina had married a German juggler...
...burrowed recklessly into ancient ruins. Often they missed or destroyed the subtle hints and clues that tell modern diggers how ancient people lived. Professor Carl W. Blegen of the University of Cincinnati now tells how careful, new-style digging uncovered the apartment of a Greek queen of the Homeric Age, more than 3,000 years...
...named John Sadovy. When LIFE released six of his pictures to the Associated Press, hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. snapped up the chance to run them. Sadovy's grim shots of fury, terror and the face of death were all the more remarkable for the cold cour age he needed to take them in the most dangerous kind of combat-a confused, vengeful rebellion in which the bullets zinged from all directions...
...will not cease to thrill at the killing of Abraham Lincoln." But the press was not altogether blind to history. In 1864, during Lincoln's campaign for a second term, the Chicago Tribune stumped for him with prophetic words: "Half a century hence, to have lived in this age will be fame. To have served it well will be immortalitv...