Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DAVID M. MARKSON Vereda de Santa Fe, Mexico
Arrayed against the new power of the west were such diverse Democrats as Pennsylvania's Governor David Leo Lawrence, Illinois' Jake Arvey, New York's Carmine De Sapio and Georgia's Committeewoman Mrs. T. K. Kendrick. In trying to persuade the Democratic National Committee to veto the site-selection committee's choice of Los Angeles for the 1960 Democratic convention, they argued that 1) Los Angeles is expensively far away for most delegates, 2) the Pacific time zone would mean poorly programed telecasting to eastern audiences, 3) Los Angeles smog is too thick...
...heart-stabbing enough for Los Angeles Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella, paralyzed 13 months ago by auto-accident injuries, that his 15-year-old son David was declared a juvenile delinquent by Children's Court in Jamaica, L.I., for fighting in a furtive gang rumble. But worse followed. Released in the custody of his mother, David was driven to Flushing precinct headquarters, where police accused him of breaking into a drugstore with a white friend, stealing $9 and some cigarettes. When David confessed, Roy was crushed. "I tried to help as much as I could with juvenile delinquency, and here...
...scarcely known outside the trade, to have attracted so much high-powered devotion? Wiry, long-faced Manie (pronounced Manny) was a longtime recording executive for Columbia Records, later a vice president of both NBC and RCA, and he died last year of leukemia at 56. Says RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "He was the most selfless man I ever knew." Frank Sinatra credits him with "a closetful of right arms." Adds Variety Editor Abel Green in a bathetic burst: "His was the unashamed opening of the pores of human kindness...
...world figure-skating championships in Colorado Springs, two-time Champion David Jenkins, 22, fell behind in the compulsory figures but recouped with a fine free-skating performance to keep his title. The women's division was no contest at all for green-eyed Carol Heiss, 19, of Ozone Park, N.Y., who romped off with her fourth straight championship, hinted later that she might retire soon from competition...