Word: glenn
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...wide speaking contest, sponsored by the American Legion, he left Idaho for college and law school at Stanford. But he married the daughter of a former Idaho Governor, and returned to open a private law practice in Boise. In 1956 he entered state politics, narrowly beating former cowboy Senator Glenn Taylor in the Democratic primary and then walloping McCarthyite Republican Senator Herman Walker in the general election. Last November Church polled 55% of the vote. He was the only successful Democratic candidate for a major statewide office and the first Democratic senator over to win re-election in Idaho...
Since entering the NHL, the Black Hawks have not won the Prince of Wales Trophy for finishing first. They had their best chance this season when, with about ten games remaining, they held a commanding six point lead over the Canadiens and the Leafs. Bobby Hull stopped scoring. Glenn Hall started letting in goals. The defense became porous. The team fell...
...vision," said Sara Bartholomae, 47, "and in the vision I saw John Glenn's space vehicle.'' So the ex-beautician, who last December won a $5,500,000 divorce settlement from oil-rich William August Bartholomae, announced that she will spend $1,000,000 of it to build a church shaped like the Mercury 7 on her Brea Canyon ranch near Los Angeles. "It will be open to the public for meditation and peace of mind," says Sara. She plans to have the chapel completed by Feb. 20, 1964, the second anniversary of Glenn's triple...
Occasional Actress Linda Christian, 39, onetime wife of the late Tyrone Power and self-styled "woman of the world," thought she saw a Ford in her future, but her engagement to Actor Glenn Ford, 46, was brief even by Hollywood standards. After a candlelit dinner, they both phoned their happy news to Los Angeles Columnist Harrison Carroll. Came the dawn, and Glenn was on the phone again. "Ridiculous," he snorted. They were "only kidding." Not so Linda. "Glenn proposed," she insisted. "He was so nervous he had three helpings of Wiener schnitzel. I think he should go to a rest...
...that included aiding an arrest, family squabbles, a threatened knife skirmish, and a checkup on two youthful narcotics users. Nobody recognized the "detective" in dark glasses and a borrowed fedora, even though his framed portrait hung on the wall in one shabby basement apartment. It was Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, prowling the streets incognito with New York's Finest. "He was interested mostly in the kids," reported Patrolman Thomas Gannon. "He said it looked just like West Side Story...