Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snead, the $15,000 Eastern Open golf championship, with four sub-par rounds (71, 67, 68 and 69), by two strokes over Runner-Up Ed Oliver; at Baltimore. ¶ Auto Driver George Hill, the hot rodders' prize of prizes: International Class C speed record of 229.77 m.p.h. (old record: 219.5 m.p.h.); at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. On the outward run over the one-mile course, Hill was clocked at a 235.41 clip. But the abrasive track surface shredded the tires so much that Hill was forced to ease up on the last half-mile of the return trip, timed...
Wallace Harrison was born on Sept. 28, 1895 in a small frame house in the center of Worcester, Mass., where his father was superintendent of a local ironworks. Young Wally Harrison saw the automobiles fill up Main Street, saw the old Victorian houses taken over by morticians and auto showrooms...
...Seven months ago, former Newsman Tom Mechling, 31, and his pretty brunette wife Margaret set out on a campaign tour that outdid the Fuller Brush man. Taking turns at the wheel of an auto trailer, they toured Nevada 18 hours a day, seven days a week, ringing doorbells and chatting with registered voters-Mechling estimated a total of 60,000 of them. Last week, at trip's end, Tom Mechling won Nevada's Democratic nomination for Senator in one of the year's most startling political upsets. His defeated opponent: popular, former State Attorney General Alan Bible...
...Outposts. Today, Soapy's strength in Michigan is built on a sort of right triangle. The base is the powerful C.I.O.P.A.C., anchored by some 400,000 members of Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers in & around Detroit. The vertical side, extending far upstate, is the Michigan Democratic Club, founded by Soapy's good friend and law partner, Hicks Griffiths. The hypotenuse is the candidate himself. Each member of this triangular coalition is essentially dependent on the other...
...remarkably alike. Under a picture of the family she wrote: "Would there be a 24-year-old woman anywhere who resembles these children, and who might possibly be the long-lost Mary Agnes?" Her question was answered quickly. In California, where the Oakland Tribune ran the picture, a young auto mechanic said the Moroneys looked just like his 24-year-old wife, Mary Beck McClelland, who had been adopted by a foster mother the year of the kidnaping...