Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ailing Representative Usher Burdick, who last year asked in Congress for a review of the poet's case. Spry Ezra did his best to cheer up the Congressman with a 75-minute discourse on everything from American Presidents (Herbert Hoover: "Any man can make errors in his youth"; Franklin D. Roosevelt: "He was a fool"); to the well-documented charges that Pound made treasonable broadcasts from Italy during World War II ("Damned lies-I never told the troops not to fight"). Unperturbed by the word flow, Burdick had admitted earlier that he had never read any of Pound...
...solidly researched series on desegregation problems in the Saturday Evening Post, Freelance Newsman John Bartlow Martin, 42, last week won the University of Illinois' Benjamin Franklin Magazine Award "for distinguished writing, involving original reporting in which serious obstacles had to be overcome." It was his fourth Franklin Award in five years-a record unmatched by any other writer...
Last year Freeport offered to cut the price to $1.24 if the Government would sign an irrevocable contract to buy at least two-thirds of its Nicaro ore needs from Freeport through 1978. General Services Administrator Franklin Floete turned down the offer, called on Lawyer Ira D. Beynon, 62, to clean up the Nicaro dispute. Beynon attacked the chore with vigor. Testified Freeport Sulphur's President Langbourne Williams: "Mr. Beynon began to call us names, to threaten us with congressional investigations. He said, 'You reduce [the ore price] or I'll shut this plant down...
Fitz has been quick and ready to ride off on his own crusades. In 1936, when the P-D fell off its ideological platform and backed Landon against Franklin Roosevelt, and again in 1948 when it backed Dewey against Truman, ardent Democrat Fitzpatrick put down his crayon and went off fishing. Talking to Democrat Mauldin about his new job, Publisher Pulitzer asked what he would do if the P-D backed candidates he could not stomach. "Well," said Mauldin, "I guess I'd go fishing too." Grinned Pulitzer: "Fine...
...morning in mid-March. Mrs. Gladys Lowman, 31, wife of a roofer in Franklin, Ohio, awoke with what she called a bad stomachache. Drugs brought no relief all day. An orange-sized lump soon began to bloat her abdomen. When her doctor ordered emergency surgery. Dr. Walter A. Reese at Ohio's Middletown Hospital operated at once. He found a hemorrhage in a kidney that had apparently been displaced from birth. Swiftly, because the patient otherwise would have bled to death, Surgeon Reese removed the kidney. Despite massive transfusions, Mrs. Lowman lost so much blood during the operation that...