Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such public works as highways and mental hospitals. But standing by in case lightning turns fickle is Cincinnati Councilman Charles Phelps Taft, 60, brother of the late Senator Robert Alphonso Taft. Charlie Taft filed as a last-minute fill-in candidate when O'Neill suffered a winter heart attack (TIME, Feb. 10). But when the governor recovered and asked him to withdraw, Taft refused. Instead, he promised to do no campaigning beyond the confines of his own Hamilton County and thereby touched off one of the state's odder political campaigns...
After a 1952 heart attack, Levant's road went downhill. He tried recuperating with a bottle, got encircled with more troubles-"at the instigation of a psychiatrist who obviously hated me." He was tossed out of the Musicians' Union for missing concerts, and though quickly reinstated, "I went on drugs because I was deeply hurt. I had been a good union man." After a last concert at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium in July 1953, Levant packed off to a Pasadena sanitarium. In 1956 he managed to last 18 weeks on a Los Angeles KNXT show, Words About...
Died. Ernest Eden Norris, 76, longtime (1937-51) president of the Southern Railway Co., "the guy''-according to Frisco line President Clark Hungerford-"who brought the Southern from doldrums to dividends," father of Novelist Frank Collan (Tower in the West) Norris; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A lifetime railroader who began his career in his teens, Norris ceaselessly patrolled the Southern in his office car, knew every foot of the road's 8,000 miles of track, once walked away from a wreck and waited until that evening to have a broken collarbone set with...
...light rain grew to a downpour during the second half, the Princeton attack deluged the varsity cage with eight goals. Most of them were the result of deliberate patterns, and the Crimson was fairly lucky to escape with even that amount of damage...
...into the scoring column in the first period with a goal by Dick Parks at 14:59, just one second before the gun. Dub Mallonee had set up the play with a pass to Parks. During the second period the Tigers' strong clearing and checking prevented any sustained Crimson attack...