Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MAGIC CIRCLE (288 pp.)-Edited by Louis Untermeyer-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A perennial anthologist has sifted some poetry that rhymes and rouses, from The Highwayman to The Shooting of Dan McGrew...
...Interior, a Westerner was almost inevitable since Interior's most important sphere of action is in the West (power development, conservation, etc.). An early possibility was Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado. Eisenhower advisers remembered the feud between Colorado and Arizona and California over division of the Colorado River water, advised against a Colorado man. Ike chose Oregon's Governor Douglas McKay, whom he had met during his campaign in the Northwest and liked for his independence and common sense...
...brought back a few such famous characters as Lillian ("Madame Queen") Randolph and Elinor ("Ruby") Harriet, and recalled some favorite milestones from their script life: Madame Queen's breach of promise suit against Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does. How you like...
...calendar was loaded with speaking engagements up to Jan. 20-and that he was sorry he had accepted so many. A few days later he failed to show up for a luncheon date with the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Then, on Armistice Day, he sent Navy Secretary Dan Kimball off to do the presidential honors at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He canceled his regular press conference on the grounds that he had nothing to say, refused to let his press secretary chronicle the arrivals and departures of relatives and in-laws who are swooping down...
When Handsome Dan VIII takes the field, he will carry a long tradition of Eli mascot on his broad back. Yet even now, Eli cheer leaders are said to be predicting his early demise. It is said that he is developing a serious set of ulcers