Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike most big U.S. cities, Kansas City also has an undisputed first citizen. He is Roy Allison Roberts, president and general manager of the Kansas City Star, a 265-lb. extravert who presides over his domain with the shrewd joviality of Falstaff and the hearty acumen of David Harum. He looks like the jolly personification of the sun at midday. He achieved and holds his zenith because of a deceptive appearance of innocence (his favorite description of himself: "I'm just a big, fat country boy"), almost inexhaustible energy, and a congenital talent for politicking...
...Calgary hosts promptly whisked her ten miles out to the Sarcee Indian reserve. There, during the Indians' annual Easter dance, Chief David Crowchild decreed that she should be known to all Sarcees as Sootz-ah-tsa (Shining Star). As Barbara Ann headed back to her Palliser Hotel suite, Calgary Albertan Reporter Art Evans took over for the final ecstatic burble: "Obviously tired but wearing the thrill of her Indian adoption like a happy mantle, Shining Star quietly slipped away to her tepee, there to dream of cool waters, soft winds, and the Great Manitou who guards the sleep...
Dwight Eisenhower, in civilian clothes just six weeks, climbed back into uniform and rushed to West Point to play a supporting role in a dewy-eyed, unmilitary picture with son John, daughter-in-law Barbara Jean, and first grandchild Dwight David...
...result of the League of Left Handed Men, former Chairman David C. Poskanzer announced last night. "It was one of the goals that we were striving for, and now that we've reached it, the league has been disbanded," Poskanzer explained...
Through the transaction completed March 29, Robert Fletcher Keahey '45, Jerome T. Kilty '50, Thayer David ocC, and Albert Marre 1L take over full control of the property. They will continue to rent it out to visiting companies until June 1949, at which time rehearsal starts on their own productions...