Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grueling race over four miles; Harvard won in the last seconds by a quarter of a length. The eosinophil average at race's end: three for both oarsmen and cox. Harvard Coach Tom Bolles' own eosinophil drop: from 101 before the race to six after...
...Abrams dropped into a fearful slump at the end of May, leaving left field as serious a problem as third base where the club has had to fall back on Billy Cox. A slow start by right fielder Carl Furllio has hurt slightly. Don Newoombe and Preacher Roe have carried the main pitching load, with some unexpected relief help by Clyde King. If King and Ralph Branca, who has pitched brilliantly recently, hold up the Dodgers will not be caught...
...months, almost singlehanded, Georgia's hot-eyed Gene Cox had done his best to keep the U.S. from sending grain to famine-threatened India. The President had asked for it, the Senate had passed the bill, but "Goober" Cox had tied things in committee, where he thrashed around with the bill like a mongoose fighting a cobra. Last week, when the bill finally reached the House floor, Goober rose for a last convulsive spring. His intent: to keep it from even being debated...
Rayburn spoke only four minutes. His voice was pitched at an almost conversational tone. But his little talk brought an overwhelming 211-to-13 vote for debate. Next day, Cox made a desperate effort to emasculate the bill with amendments, was beaten only 135 to 103. Not all the debate was pitched to Rayburn's appeal to selfishness; Republican Congressman Walter Judd, onetime medical missionary in China, said: "This is a case where what our hearts prompt us to do coincides with what is in the interest of our country, world order and peace, to do." The vote...
Died. Henriette Cox Broun, 93, mother of the late columnist and American Newspaper Guild founder, Heywood Broun; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In her youth a fiery socialist, pacifist and women's rights pioneer, she changed her views in later years, became a persistent writer of letters-to-the-editor, urging "fair treatment for employers," good-naturedly feuded with son Heywood, who thumb-nailed her as a "confirmed reactionary and a bridge player." Predicted Broun: "When the revolution comes, it's going to be a tough problem what to do with her. We will either have...