Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...release of her first recording in eleven years (Rockin' in the Rocket Room), mellowing (43) Songstress Frances Longford hove up to a Manhattan pier on the 118-ft. Chanticleer, an air-conditioned pleasure dome captained by her husband, Outboard Motor King Ralph Evinrude. On hand to greet the yachtsmen was Rockin's most conspicuous author, smilin' Cartoonist Zock Mosley, who normally writes the overage dialogue of comic-strip hero Smilin' Jack. Why had he ventured into the teenagers rock 'n' roll rhythm? Drawled well-preserved Mosley: "I'm hepper than most bobby-soxers...
...Jose, Calif., rioting rock 'n' rollers routed 73 policemen, injured eleven people, did $3,000 worth of damage to a dance hall before they were evicted. Neighboring Santa Cruz banned rock 'n' rollers from civic buildings...
...York University's Ernest O. Melby, 64, for eleven years dean of the School of Education. A Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Melby rose from small-town teacher and school superintendent to be dean of Northwestern University's School of Education, president of Montana's State University, and finally, chancellor of Montana's higher educational system. But it was not until he got to N.Y.U. that he came into his own as a kind of senior defense counsel for the U.S. public school against those who insisted that it had sacrificed its intellectual content...
...graduate student named Robert Kroc, who was not only convinced but determined to put Dr. Hisaw's discovery to use. In 1944 Kroc went to work in the laboratories of the Maltine Co., now part of New Jersey's Warner-Chilcott Laboratories. After an expenditure of eleven years and an estimated $1,000,000, Kroc found a way to apply the pocket gopher's hormone to the human female biology-but for a vastly different purpose...
Spectator Sport. In Chicago, after detectives uncovered a .44-caliber revolver, 100 bullets, eleven daggers, three switchblade knives, lock-picking tools, a lock puller and a tear-gas gun in the back of his car, Harry Owens explained: "My hobby is shooting. I throw daggers and knives to amuse myself. I studied locksmithing, and I like to watch people...