Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Frederick Emerson Peters, 73, suave, oft-jailed swindler who passed about 28,000 bad checks, netted $250,000 in a career of 200 impersonations, including a college professor, retired actor, Paris Peace Conference delegate, and such definitive roles as Franklin Roosevelt and Writer Philip Wylie, charmed his victims so thoroughly that the FBI often had trouble convincing them that they had been duped, was often altruistic (last winter he sent the National Cathedral in Washington a $200 chalice, paid for. to be sure, by a bad check); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn...
...Franklin to Theodore. Liberal Schlesinger has predictable contempt for the Eisenhower Administration ("The nation is at last coming out of the Eisenhower trance"), but, seeking a clue to the nature of the upcoming liberal wave, he chose a surprising point of reference. Democrats would do well, he wrote, to turn back, not to Franklin Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson for the answer, but to the turn of the century and Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican...
...meter run is a slow, not very popular race, a dogged, grinding test of endurance that usually sends the track fans ambling out for hot dogs. But not last week, when the best U.S. team ever assembled met the best from Soviet Russia at Philadelphia's Franklin Field. Far ahead was Russia's tireless Alexei Desyatchikov. Yet the eyes were not on him. All heads turned toward the other three men-two Americans and a Russian-struggling against time and tortured bodies to win honor and points for their countries-three for second place, two for third...
Moscow by taking first place from Russian Vladimir Bulatov. Though Bragg had never topped 15 ft. at Franklin Field, he cleared...
...Russian Track Meet (NBC, 4:30-6 p.m.) Live and taped views of the two-nation meet at Philadelphia's Franklin Field...