Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this latest romp had given conversation a new spice. For weeks, shopgirls riding the crowded subway of Buenos Aires had aired their views. "I don't care what she was," said one. "I just hope she can do what she promises." Pomaded young executives in the Calle Florida and stolid porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) sipping tea in the Boston Bar rehashed the question of Eva's position. "I don't mean to be snobbish. I don't mind her humble origin in the least; many of us descended from poor immigrants, but there...
Communists & Cough Drops. At 3:10 p.m. Florida's glib, long-nosed Claude Pepper began to speak. Between interruptions, he droned on until 6:50 p.m. Idaho's Glen Taylor, the Singing Cowboy, took the stage. He went into a routine of detailed statistical exposition, interspersed with sallies at Senators, the price of autos and the difficulties of living in a truck. He told a yarn about a Communist he worked with in a war plant in 1944. It took about 500 words and several minutes for Taylor to reach the point: ''The Communist would...
Nobody paid much mind to Manager Billy Southworth when he sounded off about Spahn in Florida: "He'll win 20; he'll be one of the best." Every manager has a right to talk that way about a prospect in training and, besides, wasn't this guy a lefthander? By this week, Warren Spahn was making other National League managers sit up and take notes on him, and making Southworth look very right indeed...
...strongest proponent of listeners-in on Congress is Florida's Claude Pepper, who for three years has been plugging a bill to legalize broadcasts. But the idea has some strong opponents. Says Ohio's Senator John Briclier: "Silly idea." Texas' Tom Connally fears for "the dignity and solemnity of the Senate...
When he got home (he is still in the A.A.F., stationed in Florida) he expected that the I.O.U.s might be quickly forgotten. They weren't: in a short time Greening had his money, and arranged with a printer to publish a book of his watercolors. By last week all 5,000 books had reached the subscribers, and there were already 1,000 requests for more. Colonel Greening's careful watercolors were not first-rate art, but for the graduating class of Stalag Luft I they made a historic yearbook. And to men who had survived air combat...