Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billy Graham gave him a dime, and the Rev. Dan Potter, executive director of the New York City Protestant Council, suggested that Graham move on to another group of derelicts. "I'm going to pray that you'll find God," Graham called back. "You'll never regret it." The old man nodded, got up from the sidewalk and walked away...
Among the passengers: a salesman (Dan Dailey) with a novelty line, who tries it out on a blonde across the aisle (Jayne Mansfield); a couple of harried marrieds who give their boy-crazy daughter (Dolores Michaels) no peace. As the trip starts, the daughter makes a pass at the driver of the bus (Rick Jason), who has just left his wife (Joan Collins) because she drinks too much and smooches too little. Meanwhile, the salesman is pitching for the blonde: "I have depths, honest. I think I have." And back at the depot the highway patrol drops...
...style or quantity. Last year he sold about 40,000, mostly to hotels, and this year business is even brisker. In a recent typical week he sold 1,166 paintings to a Hollywood studio, a cluster of hotels, a golf club and a Los Angeles eating place called Coffee Dan's; fortnight ago he got an order from San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel for 3,564 paintings (all "very modern," mostly abstract); last week he sold the Las Vegas Hacienda 1,488 paintings with colors to match the color schemes of the rooms...
...tomorrow's events, which begin at 6 p.m., Harpel and John DuMoulin will compete in the hammer; Jim Doty, shotput; freshman Dan DiBona in the high jump; Pat Liles in the broad jump and pole vault; Henry Wente in the broad jump; and Lee Barnes in the 100. Wharton will enter the 440 and Benjamin the three-mile, while freshman Ed Martin will be the lone Crimson entry in the mile...
...doctors who protested that Bloomgarden had also given a noun, "coccyx," instead of the adjective "coccygeal." Either both contestants were right or both were wrong. Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica admitted to an inconsistency in the quiz answers that they had approved for the show. Barry and Co-Producer Dan Enright put heads together, agreed that both contestants had missed, and called for a rematch-again at $3,500 a point-next week (Mon. 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Although Bloomgarden must relinquish claim on last week's pot, he gets a guarantee from the sponsor (Geritol) that even...