Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legs of a champion and the inbred ham of a Barrymore. teamed with TV to make horse-racing fans out of millions who did not know a fetlock from a padlock. The year brought reminders of previous champions: Jim Jeffries died; so did Bill Tilden and Jim Thorpe. Handy Earl Sande, 54, and hard up for eating money, cinched on a saddle and tried for a comeback (but booted home only one winner). And in the biggest sweep since Bobby Jones's "grand slam" in 1930, Ben Hogan wrapped up the three big titles of golf, to become sport...
...Earl D. Johnson, 48, holdover Under Secretary of the Army, will retire to become head of the Air Transport Association of America, industry association of the scheduled airlines...
...Great Success Story. No matter which way Chief Justice Earl Warren and the eight Associate Justices decide these cases, the race problem will be there in some form to worry future generations of Americans...
...across the street from the State Capitol, mountainous (300 Ib.) Arthur H. Samish, 56, has directed one of the most effective lobbying operations of modern times. "I'm the governor of the legislature; to hell with the governor of California," good-humored "Artie" Samish liked to say. When Earl Warren was governor, he agreed, saying, "On matters that affect his clients, Artie unquestionably has more power than the governor...
...free nations can now welcome the Japanese to their company. Of the trickle of foreign books critical of the U.S., the most sensible and understanding was Italian Luigi Barzini Jr.'s Americans Are Alone in the World. The most gratuitous book from abroad was, by all odds, Briton Earl Jowitt's The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, which niggled at American jurisprudence and raised among readers questions as to the earl's competence to judge the nature of Communist conspiracy...