Word: genes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm half-hour over, Dwight Eisenhower sighed, "Maybe we need air conditioning," and whisked away to the Burning Tree Club's fairways for a round with two of his favorite golfers, Gene Sarazen and Ben Hogan...
...correspondent in the Far East, slim, modest Gene Symonds rose rapidly in the United Press. Right after World War II and a stint on Stars and Stripes, he went to Ohio State University for a year, then in 1947 covered the Ohio legislature in Columbus for U.P. Symonds moved to New York, was working on the U.P/s foreign desk when the Korean war broke out. Unmarried, he volunteered to go to the Far East, became a war correspondent, manager for the Philippines
Last week in Singapore, covering Communist-led political riots, Correspondent Gene Symonds left the American Club and headed for the scene of the trouble to talk to some of the rioters. His cab was stopped at two police roadblocks, but Symonds ordered the driver on. At the second, he told four constables standing in his way: "I have an important job to do." When the car got close enough for Symonds, he handed the driver his card, told him, "In case I don't come back this way, come to the office in the morning to get paid." Then...
...time the police van arrived, Symonds was lying unconscious on the ground. Fifteen hours later. Gene Symonds. 28, died of a fractured skull, the 13th U.S. correspondent to be killed in Far Eastern war and violence since the end of World...
Probable Baritone. When World War I threatened, Biddle set up camp on a family estate and trained 40,000 men for U.S. fighting forces. One young marine boot named Gene Tunney took his first boxing lessons from Biddle. Later, the athletic Christian circled the world to find more punishing combat tricks to teach marine and FBI recruits. He also found time to write a dozen books ("in a rather half-nelson style," says his daughter) and give annual recitals at Philadelphia's august Academy of Music. ("Mr. Biddle is a baritone, I think," said one critic...