Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent U.S. political history. In a sense, as TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief John Steele reported this week, it had been inevitable ever since last June, when a House investigating subcommittee revealed that Adams had accepted a vicuna coat, $2,000 in hotel bills and other gifts from Boston Textile Wheeler-Dealer Bernard Goldfine. In turn, Adams had interceded for Goldfine with federal regulatory agencies. President Eisenhower's original decision to stand behind Adams imposed an intolerable double standard on Administration ethics. But in the final result, it was beleaguered Republican political candidates who brought Adams down...
...Boston's talented, temperamental Ted Williams turned furious at a called third strike in a game with Washington, hurled his bat toward the dugout, saw it sail into the seats and strike a spectator, who turned out to be Mrs. Gladys Heffernan, housekeeper for Red Sox General Manager Joe Cronin. Mrs. Heffernan was bruised over the left eye. Forgiving Williams, Cronin explained: "The guy feels bad enough...
...Wainwright Building (eighth) and Chicago's 1889 Auditorium (13th). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe won tenth place with Manhattan's House of Seagram (TIME, March 3) and 24th with his Lake Shore Drive apartments in Chicago. Famed 19th century Architect Henry Hobson Richardson also rated two buildings: Boston's 1877 Trinity Church (14th) and Chicago's since-destroyed Marshall Field store (17th). The University of Virginia (eleventh) and Monticello (twelfth) scored for the 18th century's Architect Thomas Jefferson...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28--Ted Williams wrapped up his sixth American League batting championship with a closing day flurry--a double and homer in four trips--while his Boston teammate and rival Pete Runnels went hitless in four chances...
...Harvard Band will give a charity concert tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 on the grounds of the Boston City Hospital. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Hospital, and will feature compositions by Leroy Anderson '29 and John Finnegan '47, both alumni of the Band...