Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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*The occasion for the North Dakota trip was next week's special election of a new U.S. Senator to fill the seat of the late "Wild Bill" Langer. The contestants-Republican Governor John E. Davis and Democratic Congressman Quentin Burdick-were all but lost in the throng of their...
The transaction caught the Post itself by surprise: it was scooped on the story by the rival Rocky Mountain News. Other Post stockholders leagued to announce that Newhouse's 15% invasion was as far as he would be allowed to go. "No further sales are contemplated," said Helen Bonfils...
Cannonball got his name not from his propulsive style but from his gigantic appetite: a friend who saw him wolfing down steak nicknamed him "Cannibal," which in slurring repetition gradually came out "Cannonball." Born in Tallahassee, Fla. 31 years ago, Cannonball played trumpet in high school, switched to sax in...
Splitting the Kitty. In eight years Welch got $31,730 from his cut on advertising and odd extras, plus $173,293 from reprints. Nor was that all. Parke, Davis & Co. invested $100,000 in a Brit ish edition of Antibiotic Medicine and Clinical Therapy, and when it failed, there was...
When Benny's daughter Joan played a squeaky violin, Jack grabbed the fiddle, bashed her over the head with it. When Sammy Davis imitated Dean Martin, a roar came from the wings: "How the hell can I be onstage when I'm still in the toilet?" Most of...