Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet in November for the governor's chair that Frank J. Lausche is vacating to run for the U.S. Senate. Ex-Federal Price Boss Michael V. Di Salle (5 ft. 5 in., 212 Ibs.) gathered more votes than his four Democratic opponents combined, while State Attorney General C. William O'Neill (5 ft. 5 in., 160 Ibs.) drubbed Lieut. Governor John W. Brown for the Republican nomination. Biggest surprise in Ohio: the failure of Lausche, unopposed in the primary (as was his Republican senatorial opponent, George Bender), to capture all of the state's 58 delegates...
...West Virginia, running for the U.S. Senate seat of the late Harley M. Kilgore, ex-Senator Chapman Revercomb led a Republican field of five, and Governor William C. Marland edged past State Attorney General John G. Fox to win the Democratic nomination. But in the race for governor, Democrats turned their backs on Marland-backed Milton J. Ferguson, picked Congressman Robert H. Mollohan to run against the G.O.P.'s Cecil H. Underwood, minority leader of the state house...
Funerals are getting weepier, and a good thing, too, according to the executive secretary of the National Funeral Directors Association. Speaking in Milwaukee to the 75th annual convention of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association, Howard C. Raether said that the trend is now away from the cut-and-dried "memorial service" and back toward more ceremonial funerals. "Sociologists, clergymen and psychologists point out the therapy a funeral service provides for the survivors," said Raether...
Though Noblesse Oblige is obviously the definitive work on the subject, the controversy really began with a learned paper, published in Helsinki by Philologist Alan S. C. Ross of the University of Birmingham. "Today," said Ross, "a member of the upper class is, for instance, not necessarily better educated, cleaner or richer than someone not of this class...
...Bright "C" students can now win Harvard scholarships that once were reserved for "A" and "B" students only, whether bright or not. Two of the university's graduates, Robert and Arnold Hoffman, have established a $5,000 fund for "needy students who do not quite make scholarship grade." The Hoffmans said: "We felt that very often a student who is not too outstanding in college may make good in later life...