Word: drew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rights ploy undiscovered until past the parliamentary deadline for amendments, he could then reveal its presence and split the ranks of Southern conservatives. Craftily, Rayburn's strategists laid a booby trap for Southerners who were routinely hunting for civil-rights hookers by leaking a phony tip to Columnist Drew Pearson that the hooker was in Section 102. Pearson dutifully printed the news, and the Southerners who rushed to read that section soon relaxed-no civil-rights stuff there...
...plastic surgeon in Tokyo caddishly blabbed that the bosom of the new Miss Universe, Japan's Akiko Kojima, is bolstered with interior plastics, declared that he had given shapely (37-23-38) Akiko injections just before she went to California. The doctor's statement drew a blushing denial from Akiko, got a stormy rise out of her mother. "Terrible! Terrible!" cried Mrs. Hisako Kojima. "How could she have had an operation? She's the same size as last year...
...attendance has doubled, is a whopping 346,000 ahead of last year's final figure of 663,805. In the National League, the San Francisco Giants have been playing Seals Stadium (cap. 23,000) to an average of 18,000 all year long, and the Los Angeles Dodgers drew 120,000 in two big games with the Milwaukee Braves during their last home stand...
...both home runs and runs batted in, despite an anemic batting average of .249. With Rookie Bob Allison. 25. third in the league at week's end in home runs (27), Killebrew is the mainstay of Washington's new string of sluggers (TIME, July 20) that drew 12,198 to Griffith Stadium even as the team was dropping the final game of its 18-game losing streak. In other years, Griffith Stadium would go for months without such a crowd...
East Hampton, L.I., John Drew Theater: The Clostin Case, a new play by Raymond Bowers...