Word: franked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barrage of political questions at Harry Truman's weekly press conference was interrupted by NBC's Earl Godwin. "Mr. President," he began, "I have a question which is obviously planted." Harry Truman laughed at the frank admission and told him to go ahead. Godwin explained that he had two friends in the theater business and they thought there was a great revival in vaudeville-which meant re-employment for a lot of people. "That is a planted question," said Godwin, "so please say something nice about...
With the lights doused by a storm and his wife about to give birth, Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy, 41, urgently called two doctors to his Indiana home. They arrived to find that Leahy, working by candlelight, had already safely delivered the Leahy's sixth child, fourth boy ("a fullback, I think"). The coach's critique: "If you think a football game is exciting, you should have been at our house last night...
...clearly pleased at being seeded No. 1 in the tournament, over young (21) up & coming Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, the defending champion; there were moments when it seemed that Schroeder's big reason for entering the big show was to prove to several old adversaries (including Billy Talbert, Frank Parker and Pancho) that he was still boss...
...quarterfinals, his relaxation was almost too good. He found himself in a dog-eat-dog match with rosy-cheeked Frank Sedgman, the 21-year-old Australian singles champion. It took five sets and some energetic net-rushing to subdue Sedgman, 6-3, 0-6, 6-4, 6-8, 6-4. Meanwhile, the other players that Schroeder wanted to meet were progressing nicely. In the opposite bracket, Parker and Gonzales fought through to the semifinals. Schroeder's semifinals foe was sophisticated, crewcut Billy Talbert. Billy, a diabetic sentenced to daily insulin doses, got off to a quick lead, but Schroeder...
...that kind of tournament, with high winds and rain confounding the form charts. Bull-shouldered Bob ("Skee") Riegel, the 1947 champ, upset Toledo's golfing virtuoso and tourney favorite, Frank Stranahan, before getting belted unceremoniously out-of action himself. Willie Turnesa, youngest of golf's seven famed Turnesa brothers and defending amateur champion, got his in the semifinals...