Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religion could man worship to fill the aching heart that all the glory of the good material things of life had left empty? "There is no sure shield against the tyranny of this ruinous passion for possession," said Britain's gentle, eloquent, 77-year-old teacher W. Macniele Dixon, "save a transference of our affections from possession to admiration, from immoderate craving for wealth and power to an intense longing for beauty and excellence...
Particularly noteworthy are the dances by Agnes de Mille, which, excepting for an occasional balling gesture, are among the finest ever seen in a musical. The cast is capable, especially Celeste Holm, whose comic touch is deft, and Joseph Buloff, whose comic touch is broad. Lee Dixon is fairly well known, but he is distinctly handicapped by lack of material and his resemblance to Red Skelton...
Negroes have long led the U.S. field in sprinting and jumping. But until last week no Negro boy had ever won a U.S. championship for the mile. Now the Negroes have broken in there too, thanks to New York University's Frank T. Dixon 3rd, 20-year-old son of a onetime Butler University track star...
...National A.A.U. meet in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, young Dixon ran a tactically perfect race, showing the stamina gained in years of crosscountry running. He kept well behind Defending Champion Gilbert Dodds, the Boston divinity student who invariably sets an exhausting pace from gun to gun. At least 12 yards behind as they went into the final lap, Dixon came through with a finishing kick that beat Dodds by a full yard. Time: 4 min. 9.6 sec.-only 2.2 seconds behind the world's indoor record. If Frank Dixon was not a Jesse Owens of the Mile...
...both New York State Democratic Chairman and board chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp., returned to Manhattan from a five-week "business trip." Along the way Jim Farley had a lot of talks with Southern Democratic politicians-John Nance Garner, Alabama's ex-Governor Frank M. Dixon, Georgia's Governor Ellis Arnall-which were not about Coca-Cola...