Word: asa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a natural, if delayed, comfort to Gehrmann, who had been named the winner in the first place when Chief Judge Asa Bushnell intervened to break a tie among the place judges (TIME, Feb. 6). It was a matching disappointment to Manhattan FBI-Man Fred Wilt, who was ruled the winner 13 days after the race, when New York's Metropolitan A.A.U. decided that one place judge had been ineligible to cast a vote (TIME, Feb. 20). In submitting the question to representatives of its national membership, most of whom had been miles from Madison Square Garden...
Died. Samuel Candler Dobbs, 81, a director, onetime (1919-20) president and longtime (1892-1919) chief booster of the Coca-Cola Co.; in Lakemont, Ga. At 18, Dobbs came out of the Georgia backwoods, got a job as porter in the Atlanta drugstore of his uncle Asa Griggs Candler. When Candler bought the Coca-Cola formula from the druggist who invented it, young Dobbs became its first salesman, boomed it locally as "Delicious & Refreshing" instead of as a headache remedy, later began to make it a national habit by spending millions (over Candler's objections) on advertising...
...shouting musicomedy star (Sinbad, Bombo, Big Boy), whose brassy voice in The Jazz Singer for Warner Brothers in 1927 gave talking pictures their first real start; of coronary occlusion; in San Francisco. After a successful movie and radio career and then semi-retirement in the thirties, Jolson (real name Asa Yoelson) started a second career during World War II, when he entertained troops in Europe, Africa, India and the South Pacific. In 1946 his dubbed-in singing of his old favorites (My Mammy, Sonny Boy, Swanee, April Showers) in The Jolson Story, a motion picture version of his life, brought...
...always old and homely, was also a product of the exodus of Yankee men. The thought of all those girls back East going to waste drove western bachelors wild, made them plead for someone "to bring a few spareribs to [the western] market." Finally a personable young bachelor named Asa S. Mercer, first president of the brand-new University of Washington at Seattle, decided to do something about the situation in Washington Territory at least. Mercer made a trip East, returned in 1864 with eleven girls from Lowell, Mass. All except one found husbands among the "grizzlies in store clothes...
...venture made Asa Mercer a local hero, helped win him election to the territorial legislature without an opposing vote, and inspired him to try the stunt all over again a year later. But this time he had his troubles. Willing Yankee maidens were not at fault; they signed up by the hundreds. The trouble started when the New York Herald howled that Mercer's maidens were headed for Northwest brothels. Reluctantly, two-thirds of his charges saved their reputations by backing out; Mercer managed to get a scant hundred of them on the boat. Because some deserted...