Word: garfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad jump Kirkland's Mike Garfield edged Barry Dym of Eliot. Kirkland's other two first places were won by Gerald Margolis in the 100 yard dash and Russel Chesney...
Died. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam, 71, U.S. Methodism's champion of liberalism; of bronchial pneumonia; in White Plains, N.Y. (see RELIGION...
...Methodist Church. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam once hinted, needed both the whirlwind evangelist and the stable, district-bound administrator; for it owed as much to George Whitefield, who "preached and passed," as to John Wesley, who "organized and abided." Methodist Oxnam, who died last week at 71 from bronchial pneumonia,* shared in the qualities of both men. No U.S. Protestant leader of his time preached more ardently about the causes he cared for; few churchmen were his equal at the homely, slighted arts of governing a district or chairing a conference...
...shares outstanding, then approved an ingenious Guterma plot to print thousands of additional shares and dump them on the public-at a profit. First it proposed a merger with little-known and profitless Handridge Oil Corp., which was controlled by Chairman Guterma and Las Vegas Gamblers Samuel Garfield and Irving Pasternak. Terms: 575,000 new shares of United Dye, worth $18 million, for 575,000 shares of Handridge, whose assets had been bought from Texas Wheeler-Dealers John and Clint Murchison Jr. for a mere $519,000. Remarkably, this deal was approved with a minimum of investigation...
...Europe. A civil engineer found himself something of a celebrity among his co-workers in New York City's Department of Parks All have only recently returned to a workaday world that they had nearly forgotten while serving as jurors in the trial of U.S. v. Samuel Garfield, et al. in Manhattan's Foley Square courthouse. As jurors, they had seen 1,890 exhibits and heard 109 witnesses give 26,731 pages of testimony in the longest criminal trial ever held before a federal court jury. It lasted just 23 days less than a year...