Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visiting reporter for the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, with a great show of innocence and a grits-and-gravy drawl, said: "Mr. President, this is my first conference. My impression about you is that you look a lot younger than I thought you did." The President rocked back on his heels and let out a real belly laugh. The Southerner pressed his advantage quickly, "Would you say you are in better shape now than when you first became President...
Died. Hugh Casey, 38, burly onetime relief pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, who set a record in the 1947 World Series when he was called from the bullpen in six of the seven games; by his own hand; in Atlanta, Ga. Depressed by his fall from big-league to semi-pro ball, by a messy paternity suit, a $6,759 tax lien and a reported heart ailment, the onetime "Fat Fireman of Flatbush" telephoned to his estranged wife, told her "I'm all dead inside," then, as she listened, shot and killed himself...
...North Georgia Methodist Conference in Atlanta, Vice President Alben W. Berkley explained how he happened to become a Methodist himself. "My ancestors were Presbyterians for six generations," said the Veep, "but I was at a Methodist college-old Emory at Oxford, Ga. I decided to become a Methodist when I was 17. I decided I could be just as good a man in the Methodist Church as in the Presbyterian Church, if I wanted...
Chairman Richard Russell (D-Ga.) of the House committee and Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) of the Senate group met four times yesterday with a joint conference committee...
...Augusta, Ga. this week, an invading army of engineers, builders and technicians jammed the city's hotels and spare rooms to the rafters. Across the Savannah River in South Carolina, the aluminum glint of hundreds of trailers winked among the pecan groves. Giant bulldozers ripped through slash pine and red clay, pushing a four-lane, 20-mile express highway from North Augusta to Ellenton (pop. 700), a town soon destined to disappear before the bulldozers' onrush...