Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franklin Clark Fry came in the 1944 convention of the United Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. On the first ballot his name appeared on 114 of 520 votes. Says Fry: "It was the first time anyone had received that number on the first ballot-but who wanted it?" On the fourth ballot Fry was president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Without a word, he rose from his chair and went upstairs to the hotel room where his wife was waiting. As he recalls it, they looked at each other for a long moment, and Hilda Fry said quietly...
While Robinson was winning back his title with brutal skill for the fourth time in six years (never from the same man), one of his handlers was in Basilio's corner screaming that Carmen's seconds were smearing their boy with doped Vaseline. It took a couple of cops to shut him up. Then an Athletic Commission inspector closed in on Robby and took a suspicious swig from the Thermos bottle that contained the challenger's between-rounds refreshment. (It was only orange juice...
...rickety government coalition, promptly repudiated all the concessions which they had agreed to only two weeks before. In the corridors of the National Assembly, there were ominous whispers that the time was at hand for the crise de regime-the final crisis that would bring down the Fourth Republic...
...humor, friendliness and a generous display of such technological gadgetry as closed-circuit TV, a quizmaster IBM machine, and fashion shows, will win friends for the U.S. To do this the U.S. will have to work out some way to stay within the already strained overall budgetless than a fourth of the estimated $50-$60 million the Soviets are spending to impress the world at the fair. Where architecture is concerned. Stone's pavilion has given the U.S. a commanding lead over the Soviet's frosted-glass monolithic rectangle, which Belgians are already referring to as "The Refrigerator...
Died. John J. Parker, 72, chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (districts of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina), authority on state and federal constitutional law, the only man in this century whose appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate; of a heart attack; in Washington. In 1930, after his nomination to the court by President Hoover, scholarly, genial Judge Parker became the subject of a debate triggered mainly by the American Federation of Labor, because of an opinion he had written sustaining a "yellow-dog" contract...