Word: featly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearing the big, plain, healthy voice of "Patti Page." Three of her records, Tennessee Waltz, Would 1 Love You and Mockin' Bird Hill, are among the top eleven on the hit parade; since its release last fall, her Tennessee Waltz has sold some 2,300,000 copies-a feat which has won her a gold medal with a diamond in it from grateful Mercury Records...
John White and Hal Marshall tied for third with 26 points each. White's feat was particularly outstanding, as he had never played organized hockey before this year, and further played eight of the team's 23 games on defense...
Died. Marquis Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, 76, a general under Franco in Spain's 1936-39 civil war; after long illness; near Seville. The marquis was famed for only one military feat: outfoxing superior Loyalist forces in Seville, and easily taking the city. Mostly, he fought the war-and won his reputation-with nightly propaganda broadcasts ("The common people are swine . . . Spain must again be made a country fit for caballeros to live...
...Just like the frontiersmen he lectures about," students told one another as they marvelled at the feat. "Pioneer Merk," he was referred to affectionately by the undergraduates...
...same four Crimson runners who combined to turn in the third fastest time among the 31 teams that ran the mile relay race last Saturday will try to better their feat tonight at Madison Square Gardon, New York, in the Millrose Games...