Word: glens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle, though the oratory sounded as if it were for the extremes. The Republicans most in trouble, including some Midwesterners who normally might be expected to coast in, were generally those on the outer limits of the right. On the left, Senators Claude Pepper, Frank Graham and Glen Taylor had already gone down to defeat, and in California, Helen Gahagan Douglas was having a hard time living down her past votes with the same crowd. Many Democrats had ducked, or discarded, such controversial notions as the Brannan Plan or socialized medicine in their scramble for the middle of the road...
Behind Valentine was a life spent in universities, with some side trips into politics and into the business world. A Quaker, born in Glen Cove, N.Y., he went to Swarthmore where he played three years of varsity football, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and played on and coached the American 1924 Olympic champion Rugby team. He returned to teach English at Swarthmore, became Master of Pierson College at Yale, a professor of history and chairman of admissions, and finally at 34, president of richly endowed Rochester. Married, he has three children. Husky, handsome and emphatic, he became...
Auto road-racing is an old fever with Europeans. Americans have found it less contagious, but since the war a lot of them have been getting the bug. Last week some 125,000 people piled into Watkins Glen, N.Y. to see the Third U.S. Grand Prix-and the first race ever sponsored in the U.S. by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. They took home memories of flashing, underslung, overpowered sport cars roaring down the straightaways at 130 m.p.h. They also took home memories of death...
Goldschmidt and the rest of the field continued without interruption, down through the main streets of Watkins Glen, over a stone bridge in the state park, across railroad tracks, through hazardous short turns, over roads of macadam, concrete, brick and dirt. By the end of the second lap, heavy-footed Erwin Goldschmidt had the lead...
...Senator Glen Taylor, onetime running mate of Henry Wallace whose yodeling and guitar-plunking during last month's primaries failed to impress Idaho Democrats (he has demanded a recount), announced that he may go into the theatrical producing business...