Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Airlines Flight 901, nonstop from Fort Worth to Los Angeles, winged over Arizona one night last week, Passenger Francis A. Nixon, 75, lapsed into a semicoma, stricken with a gastric hemorrhage. Captain Joe Glass, the plane's veteran pilot, radioed for an ambulance and landed the DC-6 at Phoenix. Minutes later, Frank Nixon was receiving blood transfusions at St. Joseph's Hospital. The patient's son, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, was promptly notified, although his mother Hannah Nixon hated "to distress him right now when he has so much on his mind...
Lewis W. Douglas, best known to the general public as onetime U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1947-50), is proud of his Arizona heritage. In the past month, Douglas has indulged his natural pride by buying nine highly dramatic paintings of the Old West, all done in the early 1900s by Newell Convers Wyeth. Among the most picturesque is an illustration for a book called Arizona Nights, entitled "He Called Him Out and Shot Him in the Stomach." All demonstrate Wyeth's eye for action, his command of atmosphere and his passion for correct detail...
JUNE-Sinner in Our Midst. In Fort Worth, while the Rev. Arizona Brisco, assistant pastor of the Rising Star Baptist Church, was waist-deep in the crowded baptismal pool, a thief made off with his trousers, wallet...
...Arizona, Connecticut, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia...
...story describes a Civil War episode in which a small Union garrison, perched alone in the borax wastes of the Arizona Territory, must guard itself from a restless crowd of Confederate prisoners within and from a cruel horde of Mescalero Indians without. A romantic fifth column is also on hand in the shape of a Texas belle (Eleanor Parker) who makes a play for the strong man of the garrison (William Holden). Unaware that Eleanor is really conspiring with the leader of the Confederate prisoners (John Forsythe), Holden plays right along with her-until suddenly both of them discover that...