Word: connors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Polio, What? Hundreds of top-drawer medical scientists gathered in Manhattan last week for a conference arranged to celebrate the 65th birthday 9f Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Chief Justice Earl Warren, on hand to pay tribute to his old friend and fellow lawyer, said that under O'Connor's leadership "the foundation has effectively conquered polio, and is within arm's length of its great goal-extinction of the disease...
...LAST HURRAH, by Edwin O'Connor. A lusty, irreverent and affectionate fictional portrait of a shrewd gasbag who became a powerful political boss. The story stays on target so steadily that Boston's ex-Mayor Jim Curley still thinks he was having his picture taken...
...platform diving, long the private preserve of U.S. athletes, some all-but-unbeatable competition came from an unexpected source. Time after time a Russian woman and a Hungarian man among the seven judges automatically gave lowest marks on every dive to Gary Tobian and Dick Connor of the U.S. and the highest marks to Russian divers. Even so, Tobian climbed to the platform for his last dive, nursing a slight lead over Mexico's classy Joaquin Capilla. Tobian flipped through a running double-twisting for ward one-and-a-half somersault with such consummate grace that his detractors could...
...Kikuyu elders at the trial pointed out, and the other two agreed. "Kimathi did not come out of the forest as a man of peace," they said, making the court's verdict of guilty unanimous. "The witnesses lie," sneered Dedan Kimathi, but Chief Justice Sir Kenneth O'Connor thought not. His sentence: Kimathi to be hung by the neck until dead. As an ambulance carried Kimathi away from the courthouse, a crowd of impassive Kikuyu natives watched in stony silence...
...exhibits her peculiar dry but throaty tone in some distinctly modern arrangements. The second (Atlantic 1240) is almost exactly the opposite--slow melancholy songs with lush orchestrations by Ralph Burns. While the latter record may become the more popular, the dry upbeat quality of the former is Chris Connor's real contribution to modern jazz. Perhaps the best introduction to her varied gifts is in Bethlehem '56, which collects the best songs from her first three records...