Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first Leona tearfully denied all. but the tears got her nowhere: her husband, Air Force Staff Sergeant Gene Ennis, 28, stationed at Baltimore, confirmed it; so did Ennis' mother in nearby Crisfield, Md.; so did Leona's mother in Dallas. At length Leona turned in her crown (to Charlotte Sheffield, Miss Utah) and confessed that she had done it all because "we desperately needed money to buy clothes and shoes for our two small children [aged 3 and 2]. My husband makes only $300 a month, and we owe so many bills." Then that story, too, got caught...
...capitalist and anti-Marxist." "The person" Franco would choose to "sit in his time on the throne." continued the admiral, would be a man "perfectly identified with" and "absolutely loyal to" the Falange movement. This suggested, just as many Spanish monarchists have long uneasily suspected, that Franco intends to crown not the No. 1 heir Don Juan, but his young son Prince Juan Carlos. Compared with the British-educated, still young (44) Don Juan, who might be impregnated with liberal ideas about government, 19-year-old Juan Carlos would presumably be easier to handle...
...Triple Crown? At week's end Wrist-hitter Aaron, a well-knit (5 ft. 11 in., 170 Ibs.), easy-moving man of 23, led the National League in batting with a .352 average. He also led the league in home runs (29) and in runs batted in (78). Though temporarily out of the lineup with a gimpy left ankle, he has a solid chance of becoming the first National Leaguer to win clear title to these three championships since Philadelphia's Chuck Klein turned the trick in 1933 at the age of 27. But for the life...
Born Nathaniel Coles in Montgomery, Ala., Nat dropped the "s" to accommodate the "King" nickname after a nightclub owner put a golden paper crown on his head. He moved as a child to Chicago, where his father became pastor of the True Light Baptist Church and his mother the choir director. He was pounding out Yes, We Have No Bananas on the piano at the age of five, and at 15 he had his own band. It was a nightclub drunk who launched his singing career by insisting that Pianist Cole sing as well as play Sweet Lorraine. Penniless...
PAPER-INDUSTRY MERGERS face rough ride from U.S. trustbusters, who are weighing antimerger complaints against Crown Zellerbach Corp. and Scott Paper Co. In significant first victory, FTC got world's biggest papermaker, International Paper Co., to sign consent decree agreeing not to acquire interest in any competitor for next decade. International also promised to sell its 12% stock holdings in Longview Fiber Co., a top West Coast papermaker...