Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started parceling out licenses for new TV stations last week, only a few days after it began going through its backlog of more than 500 applications (TIME, July 14). Nine TV-less cities got the go-ahead: Portland, Ore., New Bedford and Springfield-Holyoke, Mass., Youngstown, Ohio, Flint, Mich., Bridgeport and New Britain, Conn., York, Pa. and Denver. But Denver is still in for a wrangle. The FCC has ordered hearings for the two rivals who want channel 4-station KMYR, and the new Metropolitan Television Co., of which Bob Hope is a major stockholder...
Born. To Mary Spencer Churchill Soames, 29, youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, and Christopher Soames, 31, Conservative M.P. for Bedford: their third child (and Churchill's eighth grandchild), a son; in Westerham, Kent. Weight...
...contests for Republican district delegates, lost only one city (New Bedford, the bailiwick of Taft's state chairman, Newspaper Publisher Basil Brewer). Of the ten delegates-at-large, at least two were for Eisenhower. That made the count: 29 for Ike, three for Taft, six uncommitted. When the word reached
...team has also made special efforts to interest service personnel from the Bedford Air station and the Boston Naval base in the game. Posters have gone up in a dozen mess halls, and Special Service's officers at both bases have pledged full support...
...albino condition as far as I know. If I remember correctly there is no specific mention of the fact in "Moby Dick" that the white terror of the deep was an albino whale. There is a record of an all white whale being taken by a New Bedford whaler...