Word: earl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wisconsin is one team Coach Earl Brown doesn't feel too badly about losing to, for the Badgers have one of the best teams he has ever seen and in all-American forward Johnny Kotz the "player of the year." The game was played in Milwaukee on New Year's Eve before a sellout crowd...
...night fire broke out in the old Harry Payne Whitney mansion in Newport, drove. the occupants to the gardener's cottage. The refugees: Countess Laszlo Szechenyi (the former Gladys Vanderbilt), Daughters Sylvia and Nandine, the countess' grandchildren, son and daughter of the Earl and Countess of, Winchelsea. Estimated damage...
...Republican National Committee, but he espoused no candidate of his own. The result was that when the Committee gathered in St. Louis it permitted Somebody in the person of Mr. Schroeder to withdraw gracefully after two ballots, then proceeded by acclamation to name Nobody in the person of Harrison Earl Spangler of Iowa...
Died. Major Sir Henry John Delves Broughton, 59, big-game-hunting sportsman whose trial for murder was a Maughamesque midsummer sensation of Kenya Colony in 1941; of undetermined causes; in Liverpool. He was acquitted in the fatal shooting of his handsome friend, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of Enroll, with whom Sir Henry's 29-year-old bride had fallen in love...
...promised knockdown fight between the Old Guard and the Willkieites in the Republican Party fizzled. At its meeting in St. Louis this week, the G.O.P. National Committee picked as its chairman Iowa's greying, thick-jowled Harrison Earl Spangler, 63, dirt farmer, county seat lawyer, and an avowed middle-of-the-roader...