Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Infanta Maria Christina of Spain, daughter of the late King Alfonso and wife of Count Enrico Marone-Cinzano of the vermouth family, arrived from Italy for her first visit to Manhattan. Her reaction: "What you in New York pay a cook, Rome pays an ambassador...
Willing to Travel. In El Paso, Mayor Fred Hervey pondered a letter from a London divorcee who, in order to get to the U.S., was offering her services as a "nanny, cook, housekeeper, farm manager, secretary or general factotum," and would even accept a husband "as a last resort...
...entire picture, for the top five round out with Corey's surprise of the season, Ham Graven. Ham hasn't played squash before, he was sidelined with a bum foot most of the early season, but with a "surprising come back" is undefeated in five starts. Bob Cook alternates between fifth and sixth only because "he misses that power or accuracy of top player," says Corey...
When Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Ray Brennan got hold of some secret testimony before the Kefauver crime committee, his story was a heavy blow to the Democrats. It cost "Tubbo" ("richest cop in the world") Gilbert the election for sheriff, and it helped defeat the whole Cook County Democratic machine in the 1950 elections, including Senator Scott Lucas, Democratic floor leader. A federal grand jury indicted Brennan, charging that he had impersonated a federal employee (TIME, Sept. 22) to get the secret testimony. The Government's first attempt to prosecute Brennan was thrown out of a Washington federal court...
...General's Wench has a happy ending. Sir John arrives at the whipping post with his usual ploof. The lawyer falls through a trap door; his accomplice is dropped into a pit of lime. There was "an awful sizzling as Alfy began to cook...