Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Henry Miller, 62, onetime Left Bank expatriate turned California recluse, whose sex-obsessed novels (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer), after being banned in the U.S., became avant-garde favorites in France; and Evelyn Byrd McClure, 29, Hollywood artist-actress; each for the third time; in Carmel Highlands, Calif...
...requirements of the Old age and Survivors Insurance System, but he does admit that the payroll contributions of employers and workers would be used to finance these benefits. Incidentally, the original U.S. Chamber of Commerce proposal certainly led social security experts outside the government and persons such as Senator Byrd of Virginia to believe that it did contemplate raiding this Trust Fund...
...York Yankees and the Philadelphia Athletics swapped 11 players yesterday. Major figures in the trade were first baseman Eddie Robinson and pitcher Harry Byrd who went to the Yankees and the Athletics in turn received Negro first baseman Vic Power, outfielder Bill Renna, and first baseman Don Bollweg...
Standouts defensively for Adams were Bob Byrd, Picard, Milt MacDonald, Pete Stern, and Bill Zwilling...
...this year. They were wrong. Republican Candidate Theodore Roosevelt Dalton got almost 45% of the votes, more than any Republican candidate for governor in Virginia history (the 50-year average: 29%), but it was not enough. Furniture Manufacturer Thomas B. Stanley, backed by every unit of Harry Byrd's Democratic machine, was elected by a margin of more than 44,000 votes. In their own Virginia way, the Byrdmen pitched their campaign against Dalton on the argument that he was a big-spending, high-debt, New Deal type...