Word: go
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news from Pall Mall, Tenn., home town of Sergeant Alvin York, one of World War I's top heroes, was a little brighter. Teetotaler York, 71, crippled by a stroke in 1954, reported that his health is improving, allowed that he has even felt a yen to go hunting again. Another good omen: he has not heard recently from federal revenooers about the $85,442 income tax they have asked for-a kingsize slice of the royalties York got from his movie biography, produced in 1941. "They claim I owe 'em so much," drawled the old soldier...
...with a firm beat, quickly cleared his head. Having had no anesthesia, he promptly tried to climb off the table, had to be restrained until his chest could be sewn up. A World War II top kick, Flanagan was soon sitting up, eating three squares a day, expected to go home next week...
Everybody's Doing It. The plug system is so well organized that there are lists setting out which firms pay what-and it would not be possible if U.S. business did not eagerly go along. Many a performer jokes about the practice. Arthur Godfrey slipped in a mention of a popular brand of shoes and then conspicuously followed by specifying his own shoe size. On his NBC show, Interviewer Tex McCrary enjoyed displaying people who happened to be clients of his pressagentry firm...
...informality gives priests plenty of leeway in where they go and what they do, though they are not often seen in nightclubs. But in modern Italy a priest watching a soccer match-much less a floor show or a movie-is out of bounds. Priests must always wear their cassocks in public, are not supposed to smoke on the street or push baby carriages or carry large parcels, ride horseback except in rural areas, or eat alone at first-class restaurants. A priest should not be seen walking often with the same female-even his aged aunt-and a priest...
...returned to Christianity, was ordained in 1936 and became a missionary of the Assemblies of God, a pentecostal group. He went to the U.S. in 1949 to study at Indiana's Taylor University, and made evangelistic forays to America in 1954 and 1958, plans to go again next year. Bhengu has also preached in England, Canada, Scotland, Norway, Sweden and Finland. He finances his African campaigns entirely from donations collected on his trips overseas; his African audiences are never asked to contribute...