Word: biloxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months of advance practice, they bent to their sweeps with the same determination that won 29 straight victories for the Navy-including the Olympics-before the last of the Olympians earned their commissions and spread out into various odd channels (five are in the U.S. Air Force) from Biloxi to Hong Kong. Together again, the Admirals were working out an answer to a tough question: Could they recollect their old skill and stamina in time...
...Methodist Conferences of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi announced plans to build a million-dollar hotel with a modern church on a 30-acre tract in the wide-open gambling town of Biloxi, Miss...
First Lieut. Roy M. Cohn reported with 120 less renowned National Guard officers for a two-week stint of training duty at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss. Cohn took time out one evening to tell a group of local clubmen that everybody "should be trying to stop Communism," instead of criticizing his former boss, Senator Joseph McCarthy. His performance during the Army-McCarthy hearings having established him as something of an expert on the draft if not on wangling commissions, Cohn was naturally assigned to a group studying Selective Service. But when the nation's Selective Service...
...Administration's first antitrust case. He got an indictment against the Gulf Coast Shrimpers' & Oystermen's Association, an organization of some 5,000 independent fishermen who last year caught $15 million worth of shrimp (and some oysters) in the Mississippi Sound for sale to packers at Biloxi, Pascagoula and Pass Christian, Miss. The Government charged that the association and its officers used "coercive practices" to fix prices, and "force and violence" to cut off supplies of shrimp to dealers who did not meet its terms. By these methods, said the trustbusters, shrimp prices were kept high...
Married. Harry Blackstone (real name: Harry Boughton), 65, famed magician of vaudeville's old rabbit-out-of-the-hat, woman-sawing school; and Elizabeth Ross, 49, a wealthy widow he met in Biloxi, Miss, while both were taking an asthma cure; he for the third time, she for the second; in Chicago...