Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high point of his trip, although the hospitality was just beginning. The two most militant of his oilmen hosts, crag-faced Republican Hugh Roy Cullen (who hoped MacArthur would run for President) and Glenn McCarthy (who was hell-bent on publicizing his Shamrock Hotel), had been jockeying for weeks for first place in the MacArthur limelight. Houston's Mayor Oscar Holcombe had diplomatically made each chairman of a welcoming committee; between them they had toiled as if they anticipated the second coming of Sam Houston...
...most conspicuous degree-winners were the nation's bishops. By last week, there had been at least eight. Among them: Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, a D.D. from the University of Rochester; Fulton J. Sheen, auxiliary bishop of New York, a Litt.D. from Fordham University; Bishop Glenn Randall Phillips of Denver, an LL.D. from the University of Southern California...
Last week Senate investigators had a chat with a quietly dressed Washington five-percenter named Glenn P. Boehm, who had such characteristics in abundance. Not only is he a Missourian, he also knows Harry Truman and is a friend of Presidential Cronies Donald S. Dawson and Major General Harry Vaughan. Under questioning, Boehm reluctantly disclosed a few of his successful Washington deals. Among them was arranging a $200,000 RFC loan for a Philadelphia paper concern, picking up a $10,000 fee for promising to help a Mississippian sell a submachine gun to Army Ordnance, and helping a "client...
...Mood (Jerry Gray; Decca; 2 sides LP). The wowing brasses and wailing reeds that made Glenn Miller a U.S. favorite ten years ago are faithfully reproduced by this new West Coast band leader, who used to be Miller's arranger...
...never stopped sprinting. His whirlwind 56.7 final quarter, run with a graceful, almost lazy style, was the most dazzling burst ever seen in the 57-year history of the Penn Relays. It completely beat down Wilt and an off-form Gehrmann, and wiped out Glenn Cunningham's 17-year-old Penn Relay record by 3.5 sec. Bannister's time...