Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominees of a great American party were as little known nationally as Adlai Stevenson was six months before his nomination. In the week of Jan. 20, Stevenson burst into bloom. That week: 1) Truman called Stevenson to Washington, offered to support him for the presidency; 2) Stevenson appeared on TIME'S cover; 3) he made a good speech in New York to the National Urban League. The New York Times's Arthur Krock called it "Stevenson Week." In spite of this, and much subsequent publicity, Stevenson trailed far behind Kefauver and Eisenhower (but 1% ahead of Taft...
...sellout. C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney was her first customer, with a $350 purchase, and since then she has found it hard to supply the de. mand. The Paul Mellons have 14 of her pictures, including an $8,000 series of wall paintings, which show the four seasons in full bloom at their Upperville, Va. farm. The Mellons are especially taken by Painter Hewes's gift for catching the individual personalities of their favorite cats, dogs, horses and cows...
...disliked college men, contemptuously called Thurber "Phi Beta Kappa" (which he was), and could intone it "so that it sounded like a Girl Scout's merit badge." He came to like Thurber, but he never liked fancy writing, which he always greeted with "This story is in bloom!" Other good men well remembered are Cartoonist Billy Ireland (a man so kind he once complimented a friend's wife with "Edna, that's the prettiest washing out there I ever saw"), several profs at Thurber's Ohio State University, the self-appointed athletic coach of Columbus...
Puritans Bob Kiggen and Larry Bloom were outstanding on the defence...
...pound class: Autio (Dunster) defeated Muggia (Lowell), by forfeit. 130-pound class: Martin and Bloom of Leverett fought to a draw, four to four. 137-pound class: Lombardi (Eliot) defeated Goodman (Lowell), by a fall. Time--1 min., 11 sec. 147-pound class: Harris (Lowell) defeated Clark (Kirkland), by a fall. Time--5 min., 25 sec. 157-pound class: Havelock (Dunster) defeated Greenberger (Lowell), by decision. 167-pound class: Alpert (Kirkland) defeated Burrington (Kirkland), by a fall. Time--5 min., 45 sec. 177-pound class: Weber (Eliot) defeated Hill (Eliot), by a fall. Time--2 min., 20 sec. Unlimited class...