Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROBERTA G. GLENN...
...knows what's safe? I know a man dropped dead from lookin' at his wife." By that standard, moviegoers will be safer at this picture than at home. The marshal is trying to "deppytize" a passel of Hollywood tender-seats to convey a captured dry-gulch artist (Glenn Ford) cross country to catch a train, but the bandit's gang is on the lurk, and the cowboys aren't having any. They leave the job to a drought-poor homesteader (Van Heflin) who needs the money ($200) to buy water for his cattle. From there...
...then, factional wounds have been healing and Kohler has found allies among the defeated six. But he could establish no such rapport with Latecomer Boyle, an old hand at going after the frontrunner. Last year Boyle jumped into a G.O.P. primary between Senator Alexander Wiley and conservative ex-Congressman Glenn Davis, helped Wiley win by picking off about 5% of Davis' conservative vote. He makes no bones about trying to trip Walter Kohler in the same fashion. "If Kohler is beaten," he explained, "the Republican Party of Wisconsin will have to nominate a conservative in 1958. If by some...
...brought him in third). Another was Gerald D. Lorge, 35, a "fighting marine" who fought a campaign in Joe McCarthy's image, came in sixth to discover what nearly everyone else realized: even in Wisconsin, McCarthyism is dead. But the stiffest battle came from young ex-Congressman Glenn Davis, 42, who was supported by most conservative Republicans. Davis, who had promised to look Ike in the eye and say No if he got to Washington, carried 31 of Wisconsin's 71 counties, led by 12,000 votes until late returns rolled in from populous Milwaukee County. There many...
Irving (The Fabulous Originals) Wallace uses these lines from Alice in Wonderland as foreword to his studies of nine Americans of the March hare species. Wallace's fondness for just-this-side-of-the-nuthouse characters began in adolescence, when Wilbur Glenn Voliva, onetime high prophet of Zion City, Ill., personally assured him that the earth was shaped like a saucer and the sky ''a solid dome." Wallace concedes that Voliva's own dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different...