Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon the committee found that it was probing not security but a squabble between newsmen. Talbert had been scooped on the story, and after five years it still rankled. In the middle of the argument, Glenn Stackhouse, U.P.'s San Francisco bureau chief, wired the Times that Talbert's charges were "ridiculous. Said Stackhouse: He "grudgingly admired" the Times for prying the story out of the Pentagon while the opposition was sitting on its hands. Since the Communists already knew about the Sabre jets from dogfighting with them, he said, "whole security thing so much hogwash...
Crime Wave. In Kansas City, Mo., Glenn Bernard Mitchell, 32, was sentenced to 10-to-21 years in prison for walking into the Bon-Ton Beauty Salon, receiving a cold-wave permanent, then stealing $38 at gunpoint and fleeing without paying for the hairdo...
...OILMAN GLENN MCCARTHY, onetime king of the wildcatters, has found backers for his comeback attempt in Bolivia (TIME, May 16). A group of investors headed by Manhattan Rug Importer Robert Keljikan has put up $4,160,000 for a 50% interest in McCarthy's Bolivian oil field near Villa Montes, where he has already brought in two wells, one oil, one gas. McCarthy's forecast: between 35 and 45 wells in production, with 5,000 bbls. daily, within 17 months...
...Manhattan lawyer. The three ended up in top posts-Morris as president, Plymat as treasurer, Mallon as secretary-but counted only 250 lonely pol-cyholders their first year. They now have 120,000 policyholders, of all faiths, in 47 states, including such well-known drys as ex-Record Miler Glenn Cunningham and the University of Illinois' Physiologist Dr. Andrew...
...Louisiana's Democratic Representative Overton Brooks organized 100 greedy Congressmen in a bipartisan rump caucus, blithely added $86,376,000 in home-district chitterlings to the Public Works Bill (which included the TVA appropriations) in one of the most blatant congressional pork-barrel operations in years. Lamented Republican Glenn Davis of Wisconsin, in a futile motion to send the bill back to committee: "There is but one way that we can purge ourselves of the shame that has descended upon us here this afternoon, and that is to recommit this bill to the committee on appropriations." Brooks and friends...