Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...C. J. BAUMGART-PSAYLA Dumont...
...PETER C. DOUGLAS Glasgow, Scotland...
...Griffin partly with the profits from another beast, named Nasturtium. Bought by Aste as a yearling for $4,300, Nasturtium bloomed into the best two-year-old race horse of 1901. "The bluebloods must have got worried," Aste related with relish, decades later: "A bootblack with a champion!" William C. Whitney, one of that period's great turfmen, wanted to buy Nasturtium. Aste demanded a price then considered outrageous-$50,000-and set a deadline of noon the next Saturday when this offer would be withdrawn...
...plane was so low that his chute barely had time to open. He hit hard, broke a leg. He still puts in a lot of time in the air. To check up on his command last year, he logged 739 flying hours in his carpeted, wood-paneled command C-54-enough mileage to cross the U.S. coast-to-coast 70 times. Ruddy-faced and relaxed, he plays excellent golf (mid-70s)-but he can never be really relaxed about his Air Force assignment...
...mass meeting of white adults in Linden, Ala. last week, State Senator Walter C. Givhan spoke on one of his favorite topics: the campaign of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to end segregation in the schools. What, he cried, is the real purpose of the campaign? "To open the bedroom doors of our white women to Negro men." And what will happen if the campaign succeeds? The Negroes will see to it that the nation gets a Negro vice president, "and after that happens, what would prevent them from assassinating the President and making the Negro...