Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fuddyduddies feel about Dixieland when you were young? How many of you wore bell-bottom trousers and danced the Charleston? How many of you were juvenile delinquents? I wear blue jeans and dig rock 'n' roll. I am not a delinquent...
Broad Jump. Balding John Bennett of Marquette and the Army made four leaps over 25 ft., an unprecedented feat, and tied for first place with Indiana's Greg Bell...
...Italian Bantamweight Mario D'Agata, a stone-deaf laundryman from Arezzo, opened a cut over the eye of Champion Robert Cohen in the third round of a match in Rome, and then kept slicing at it accurately and relentlessly. At the bell for the start of the seventh, Cohen's cut was bleeding uncontrollably, and D'Agata was new champion...
...investigation touched off by the Record, Representative Bell admitted that while serving in the state senate he accepted more than $27,000 in "legal fees" from promoters of high-profit veterans' land deals. He was indicted for conspiracy to defraud the state of $154,100 in one of the deals, but escaped prosecution when the indictment was killed on a technicality over the qualifications of one of the grand jurors...
Under the headline I WILL VOTE FOR JOHN J. BELL, Record Publisher Jack Howerton ran his editorial in the absence of ailing Managing Editor Kenneth Towery, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the scandal. Wrote Howerton, a longtime friend of the candidate: "John Bell is not personally without guilt in connection [with] profits from the sale of state lands to veterans . . . What he did, in my opinion, was at least morally wrong . . . It is common practice for at least 75% of all those representing us in Austin and in Washington to get their fingers into public appropriations...