Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Confusion. Congressmen's heads began to swim. "There is confusion," the Republicans' Earl Michener shouted. "There is confusion on the floor...
Britain's Margaret, the world's most eligible princess, was giving her suitors-and the breathless watchers of royal romance-a breathless time. Just when London was momentarily expecting an announcement of her engagement to Walter Francis John ("Johnny") Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith and heir to the Duke of Buccleuch, Margaret began to be squired about by young-man-about-town William ("Billy") Wallace, son of the late Captain Euan Wallace, M.P. and Minister of Transport in Neville Chamberlain's government...
...Atlanta, more & more baseball fans were deserting the bleachers for their television sets. The Atlanta Crackers' President Earl Mann decided that something would have to be done. During the regular screening of the Crackers' game one night last week, the announcer first tried a little gentle persuasion: "If you want the national pastime continued on your TV set, make every effort to get out here at least once in the next few days . . . Realize that a few dollars spent for tickets is a small expenditure to protect your sports investment in your TV set." Then President Mann stepped...
...Senator Russell Long, 31, son of Huey, nephew of Governor Earl, won a full six-year term to the U.S. Senate in the seat to which he was elected for two years (TIME, Sept. 13, 1948). Russell, who says that "the day of the demagogue is over," got 67.9% of the primary vote-far more than the demagogic Kingfish ever collected...
...Earl Eames and Lloyd Haynes, M.I.T. seniors both, fell to talking that day in 1947 about World War II and the ruins they had seen in Europe. By the time they reached their Cambridge station, they had hit on their idea: bring topflight European technical students to M.I.T., give them advanced work in their specialties, then send them home to help reconstruct their countries...