Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready said Cosgrove had been "aggressive and a brow-beater" in his handling of gamblers and bars selling liquor to minors, but that he himself was of the same frame of mind as the sergeant about "gamemen and vice." He added, "that is why I became chief of police...
After his sumptuous Mt. Kisco, N.Y. home was razed by fire last spring with a $75,000 loss in art alone, Producer Billy Rose found just the thing to provide a handsome frame for his bride, onetime Movie Beauty Joyce Mathews: a 40-room, $430,000 whitestone mansion in Manhattan. Said Billy: "We'll only use about a dozen rooms to live in. Some of the 40 are servants' rooms, wine cellars, that kind of thing. It's not as frightening as it sounds...
...sweater held out by his chauffeur and sat down in Jim Corbett's chair. "Would you please close the door?" he asked. Rockefeller, who will be 83 years old next January, is troubled by drafts. He leaned back in the chair, a smock draped about his stocky frame, for the usual haircut and shampoo. Then he began to ply the barber with questions: "How is the season so far?" and "How are the stores doing?"; then "Is there plenty of employment?" Jim Corbett, who picks up most of the talk of the island, was ready with a full briefing...
...tiny (pop. 550) Tioga, Texas, early in the month, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 74, became a formal church member for the first time when he joined Lone Star Primitive Baptist Church.* The conversion took place in a white frame church, after a Sunday sermon, when Elder Henry Greer Ball, a grocer on weekdays, asked if anyone present would like to accept Jesus Christ. Up stepped Sam, taking off tie, jacket and shoes. Then, wearing socks, trousers and white shirt, the Speaker of the House was completely immersed for a moment in a portable baptistry before he emerged dripping...
...Convair has a $400 million development contract for a small number of planes. But if the Hustler proves as good as it looks, Convair is in line for a whopping big order and a pat on the back. Where most U.S. planemakers just build the air frame, then fit on whatever armament, radar, etc. that the Air Force orders, Convair's B58 is the first U.S. aircraft to be built under the new "weapons-system" concept, where the prime contractor is responsible for everything (except engines). On a plane as complex as the Hustler, the new system can save...