Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cincinnati, several days after the election, Senator Taft tried on a new, grey-blue fedora-a present from his office staff to replace the old, grey good-luck hat which he had worn in his Ohio campaign. The new fedora was symbolic; politically speaking, Robert Alphonso Taft also wore a new hat. When the 82nd Congress convenes, no man in the U.S., including Truman, will exercise more influence on legislation...
Died. Julia Marlowe (real name: Sarah Frances Frost), 84, for almost four decades (1887-1924) one of the brightest stars of the American stage; in Manhattan. Born in northern England of farmer stock, she moved to Kansas with her family at five, played her first stage part in Cincinnati at twelve, reached Broadway stardom in 1887. Best known for her warm, throaty "Juliet" and "Ophelia," she toured the U.S. for years with her husband, famed Actor E. H. Sothern ("Sothern & Marlowe"), made Shakespeare a big box-office attraction. She retired in 1924, lived in seclusion at Manhattan's Plaza...
...Philadelphia could never have won its first National League pennant in 35 years. As a relief pitcher, Konstanty was called from the Philadelphia bullpen a record-breaking 74 times;† he won 16 games, lost seven, saved some 25 or 30 more. Unsung and unwanted (by Boston and Cincinnati) as a starting pitcher four years ago, hardworking Jim Konstanty, a middle-aged (33) ballplayer who neither smokes nor drinks, hauled himself up from minor-league (Toronto) obscurity to become the best relief pitcher in baseball...
...from Cincinnati...
Bishops will have a place in the new plan, said Conference Chairman Holt, presbyteries will have certain constitutional responsibilities, and congregations will govern themselves. The plan will be formally presented to representatives of the currently participating Protestant groups* at a two-day convocation in Cincinnati in January. Then the plan is expected to go to commissions of each denomination for study and action...