Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swamped with lecture bookings, at fees reported running up to $1,500 a lecture, former Atomic Energy Commission Boss David Lilienthal was doing one-night stands in Atlantic City, Schenectady, Detroit, Columbus and Atlanta. When his U.S. lecture dates run out, he plans a trip around the world...
Pegler's genealogical low-down ran for two editions in the Atlanta Constitution, which was soon besieged by calls from angry Atlantans pointing out how low-down it really was. (King Features had also spotted the error, sent a belated "kill" order.) Two days later, the Constitution sternly corrected Pegler. In his "zeal to defame the Roosevelts," said the newspaper, Pegler had confused the "distinguished Bulloch family of Georgia"-with Rufus Brown Bullock, no Southerner but a damyankee from New York who was the "detested" governor of Georgia in Reconstruction days (1868-71). Mrs. Roosevelt was a Bulloch...
...order of their election, the other winners were: Dominique Homan Wyant '50 of Atlanta, Georgia and Lowell House, Armando David Mazzone '50 of Everett and the Varsity Club, Charles Warren Detjen '50 of Clayton, Missouri and Eliot House, and Anthony Ripley '50 of Pleasant Ridge, Michigan and Lowell House...
...included a 400-lb. state representative named C. O. ("Fat") Baker and a pretty, public nurse who once won a county election with the slogan: "You kiss the babies, I'll put their diapers on." Former Acting Governor Melvin E. Thompson was also in the running early (the Atlanta Constitution commented: "fustest with the leastest."). ¶ In Florida, Senator Claude Pepper was in the fight of his long political life with young (36) Congressman George A. Smathers. A personable war veteran with the backing of conservative money, Smathers centered his attack on Pepper's support of the welfare...
Started in Manhattan only three months ago, Tune-O has stormed its way into six other large cities (Atlanta, Detroit, Louisville, Miami, Norfolk, San Diego), last fortnight made a dizzying debut to a wildly enthusiastic audience in Washington, D.C. By last week more than 30,000 Tune-O cards had been given out and station WWDC had to install three special lines to handle the crowd...