Word: franklin
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...York lawyer, he explains, "you work harder and harder to become more and more successful so that you can move further and further away from town and see less and less of your family." As a rising young Republican lawyer in Cincinnati (who still defends a first vote for Franklin Roosevelt), he dabbled in politics, got elected to two terms (1950-53) as a city councilman. Appointed by President Eisenhower in 1954 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee), he won the respect of lawyers and the U.S. Justice Department for his solid...
Next morning, a little haggard after a sleepless night, Stewart went with Rogers to the White House for a 20-minute talk with the President, emerged youngest man to be named to the Supreme Court since Franklin Roosevelt tabbed 40-year-old William O. Douglas...
...Titian, whose birth date is in some doubt, was about 94 when he painted his great Battle of Lepanto, was between 96 and 99 and working on the Pieta at his death. Izaak Walton compleated revising The Compleat Angler at 83. John Wesley was preaching regularly at 88. Benjamin Franklin was a power in the Constitutional Convention at 81, served as president of Pennsylvania to 82. Noah Webster did a new edition of his dictionary at 82, was busy on yet another when he died at 84. Verdi was nudging fourscore when he composed Otello and Falstaff, had passed...
...shakeup in varsity performances can be partly explained by Van Cortlandt Park itself. Poor footing and the gruelling "Heartbreak Hill" are a challenge to runners used to the smooth and rolling Franklin Park course. And the unusually warm, dry day may have caused many of the unimpressive varsity performances. But inability to master Van Cortlandt could be a serious problem, since both the Heptagonals and IC4A meets will be held there--and against several teams for whom the Park is a "home course...
...freshman cross country squad crushed Andover over a three-mile Franklin Park course yesterday. The Yardlings, by taking all seven qualifying places, attained the minimum possible score of 15-50, and notched their third successive win of the season...