Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost half a century since the U.S. poetry-reading public first met dangerous Dan McGrew, but Writer Robert W. ("Wullie") Service, 76, was rhyming away the same as ever. At his villa on the Riviera, which has served as his headquarters for the past 24 years, the ruddy, grey-haired Bard of the Yukon said that he expects to live a lot longer ("My hobby is longevity") and do a lot more creating
...Herefords the highest-priced cattle breed. In the last 42 years Auctioneer Thompson has knocked down $250 million worth of cattle at more than 7,000 sales all over the U.S. His record $506,000 for a single day's selling, set at the auction of Colorado Rancher Dan Thornton's Hereford herd in 1947, still stands (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), as does the $65,000 bid at which he sold the prize bull Baca Duke II last year. Only eight Hereford bulls have ever been sold for more than $50,000. Colonel Thompson has auctioned them...
Like many another editor who long leaned heavily on fiction, Wiese knows that fiction no longer has the old pull; readers want more & more lively nonfiction, topical articles, picture spreads and stories. So he gave Mich the job of supplying them. An old newshand, Dan Mich should have no trouble filling the bill. He quit the University of Wisconsin in 1923 in his sophomore year to become sport editor of Madison's Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 76,206), was managing editor at 28. In 1937, Gardner ("Mike") Cowles lured him to Des Moines to help run his fledgling Look...
...Kanin's Leo Mack (nicely played by Scott McKay) kicks up a fair amount of routine commotion, but he is miles behind any of a dozen Ring Lardner heels. In fact the whole setup, only substituting sex for ice hockey, recalls Dan Baxter and the brothers Rover. Sex-with almost willful bad taste-is worked for any laugh it can raise, at any level...
...first major sculpture, the bronze Minute Man at Concord. Men of letters, such as Longfellow and Emerson, beamed encouragingly on his work. President Grant and most of his cabinet came on for the unveiling, which moved French's proud but cautious father to observe: "This is Fame, Dan. Make the most of it, for you don't know how long it will last...