Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Presiding over the Windmill's pleasures is 38-year-old ex-Marine Sam Bell, a hard and practical...
Pray for Sam Bell. Across the street in the Windmill, Sam Bell and his customers listened for several nights with mounting distaste. "It got louder and louder," says Sam. "I couldn't even hear the girls when they called the orders." Finally, one night last week, one of the Windmill's customers made a suggestion, and Sam Bell suited action to the word...
Married. The Rev. Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, 59, pastor of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church, entrepreneur of canned sermons, radio preacher on 60 stations; and Mrs. Margaret N. Bell, 45; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...effecting an orderly transition.'' Young, who knew the result three days earlier (when it was also leaked to the press), wasted no time taking over the world's second biggest railroad. Less than an hour after the official count was announced, Young and Mrs. Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, a member of his directors' slate and co-owner of the Reader's Digest, marched out of his offices in Manhattan's Chrysler Building and walked the three blocks to the Park Avenue offices of the Central. There his group of directors, who had been asked...
...young Chicago newspaperman, Ben Hecht once found himself standing in a train shed awaiting the arrival of a VIP when he observed a workman lying underneath a locomotive. "His legs protruded from the thighs down. I noted that the locomotive had steam up and that its bell was ringing." Next minute "the workman's long legs were lying on the platform . . . The rest of him . . . remained between the tracks." Just then the VIP's train pulled in, so Reporter Hecht left "the bloody scene" and hurried off to his interview. "I had felt no shock at what...