Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friend. Eight months later, a letter came to Frank Hayostek back home in Johnstown, Pa. "I have found your bottle and note," the blue, slanting script told him. "I will just tell you the whole story. I live on a farm at the southwest coast of Ireland. On Friday, Aug. 23, 1946, I drove the cows to the fields beside the sea and then went for a walk on the strand called 'The Beal.' It is an inlet of Dingle...
...peasant farmers and tourists, the foothills of the Maritime Alps north of Marseille are deserted and desolate. It is not country to be stumbling about in at night. So when 32-year-old Gustave Dominici, whose farmhouse overlooks the river Durance, heard shots sometime after midnight on Aug. 5, he turned over and went back to sleep. But as soon as it was daylight Dominici took a walk along the riverbank in the direction of a car he had seen parked by the road the evening before. Beside the river he stumbled over the body of a small girl...
...Ridder family, which bought the morning and evening papers in San Jose, Calif, only two weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 4), last week purchased two more California dailies. For an undisclosed amount, the Ridders took over Long Beach's morning Independent (circ. 48,100) and evening Press-Telegram (95,823). The Ridders now have twelve dailies...
When Rumania held her Olympic trials in the silhouette target-shooting event, crack Pistolman Panait Calcai scored twelve points over the official world record. At Helsinki, Calcai did not shoot as well, placed sixth behind Hungary's winning Karoly Takacs (TIME, Aug...
...named Joan Taylor (Queen of the Dairy Association) draped around her neck, and a national broadcasting company microphone recording the milking machine's gurgle, Hazel became the new champion milk cow of the world. She passed the record of 267,304 lbs. set by Ionia Ormsby Queen on Aug. 22, 1947. Hazel's lifetime production is worth more than $29,000, would fill nine tank trucks and run Whittier's dairy plant for 32 days...