Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the weekend, Major John Eisenhower, his wife and their three children arrived from Fort Belvoir, Va. for a family reunion at the farm-the last before the President, accompanied by the First Lady, departs for Geneva and next week's Parley at the Summit...
...Sharpen Your Knife." Jim Ringley, 59, is a dedicated Legion politician. During World War I, Ringley tried 17 times to get into the service, was turned down 17 times for faulty vision. On his 18th attempt, he made the grade, spent the rest of the war at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort Meade, and was discharged as a private. Returning to his native Chicago, he joined the Legion and plunged into its politics. In moments of Legion political crisis, Ringley's favorite maxim is: "When you're hurt, you smile and sharpen your knife...
Died. Silliman Evans, 61, president-publisher of the Nashville daily Tennessean (circ. 112,947) and longtime key figure in Democratic Party politics; of a heart attack; in Fort Worth, where he had attended the funeral of Publisher Amon Carter (see below...
Died. Amon G. Carter, 75, publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; of a heart attack; in Fort Worth (see PRESS...
Elementary. In Milwaukee, Veteran Cops Franklin A. Smith and Franklin F. Berg took - Rookie Cop Leo S. Markowski out to show him how to question suspicious persons, picked out two soldiers who happened to be wandering by, promptly drew admissions from them that they were AWOL from Fort Ord, had committed burglaries in Las Vegas, Denver and Nebraska, had a gun hidden in a nearby alley for use in a planned filling-station holdup...