Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Airplane Ticket. But none of this explained his death. Police, who hurried to the Institute's 16th floor offices, found few clues. Duggan's brown tweed overcoat and his briefcase (which contained a ticket for an airplane trip to Washington the next day) were placed near his desk. His left overshoe was on the floor; he had been wearing only the right one when he fell. Police found no note...
...Bites Dog. The ringleaders in the idea were not noted for their piety. Richard D. Hilliard, for instance, was a hard-living investment broker who had come through 568 days of combat duty at such hotspots as Salerno and Anzio. Owsley Brown, board chairman of Brown-Forman Distillers Corp., said he would put up $15,000 for a church, provided it was matched by other contributions. Almost overnight they had $30,000, and used some of it to buy an old Negro Baptist church down by the river. Then they sent a delegation to the Episcopal bishop of Kentucky...
...none too well; Joe Heitzman's boat rental place next door brought confused customers stumbling into church. This spring the congregation moved into a new $200,000 church. The members voted to name it "St. Francis-in-the-Fields"-though not before some friends of Distiller Owsley Brown ("Old Forester" and other brands) had needled him with such suggestions as "Owsley's Fire Escape" and "St. Owsley's in the Old Forester...
...Cleveland, the season's smallest crowd (22,981) braved another snowfall to watch the Buffalo Bills battle the Cleveland Browns for the All-America Football Conference championship. It wasn't much of a battle. Coach Paul Brown's Browns didn't let a little snow get in the way of their march to an undefeated season. The Buffalo Bills were understandably reluctant to get in the way of 238-lb. Negro Fullback Marion Motley, hardest running back in pro football since Bronco Nagurski. Motley didn't get warmed up until the second half. Then...
Since pro football has no world series, there was no decisive way of proving which league had the champingest champ. But most fans agreed that Brown's Browns, who have been champions ever since the All-America Conference was started, were the tops in pro football...