Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glumness vanished as the returns came in. This week, with the count nearly completed, Eisenhower had carried all 18 delegates, swept 68% of the Republican vote. California's Governor Earl Warren, who chose Oregon for his most ambitious campaign to date...
...orders in the will of Showman Earl Carroll, who died four years ago in a plane crash in Pennsylvania, was finally carried out: a life-size bronze of a nude woman was placed over his tomb in Glendale, Calif...
Ringleaders Earl Ward and "Crazy" Jack Hyatt. In 1950 Hyatt, with two other prisoners, had seized Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams during an inspection tour at Marquette Prison, knifed a state trooper bodyguard, and attempted to escape, using the governor as a shield. Ward, once an inmate of a mental institution, has a record for kidnaping, robbery, narcotics and armed assault. Said Fox: "Earl Ward is a natural leader. He and the other boys are to be congratulated on the good faith with which they have bargained...
...Good Old Earl. By this week, most officials involved were backing down hard. Fox, first praised for his successful negotiations with the rioters, was relieved of his prison duties. Warden Julian N. Frisbie announced there would be no great change in prison administration. As for reprisals, he said, assurances were only that there would be none by prison officials or guards. The rioters are still subject to punishment by outside law enforcement agencies. But some Michigan citizens had reason to wonder why anyone would want to keep such a splendid character as good old Earl Ward behind bars...
Working his way through Times Square traffic that afternoon last Dec. 7, Homer Earl Bragg, 40, seemed to be just another Manhattan bus driver, somberly watchful, a little tense, ready to meet the wayfarer's question with a surly reply or surly silence. Then suddenly he began popping up & down in his seat. "You people have been tormenting me!" he shouted to his passengers. "Now I'm going to torment you!" He stepped down on the gas pedal, ran past a red light at Broadway and 43rd Street, piled into a taxicab and a crush of other cars...