Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's great houses is vast and dour Buchanan Castle, near Drymen (rhymes with women), Stirlingshire. Back in 1935 James Graham, Sixth Duke of Montrose, decided that Buchanan cost too much to live in. He had already sold the mountain-famed Ben Lomond-that stood in the castle's backyard. He built himself and his Duchess a cosy, eleven-room house on the castle grounds, leased 60,000 acres of shooting land to a Glasgow businessmen's association, and turned the castle itself into a hotel...
...Democrat, there would be no question about the outcome of this election. However, Eisenhower preferred not to be the political handmaid of a president who could call the Fullbright Report on RFC corruption "asinine" or who has still refused to fire Harry "Deep Freeze" Vaughan, Wallace "Grain Speculation" Graham, or Donald Dawson who, as presidential patronage boss with power to hire and fire the directors of the RFC, the Fullbright Report found, "recommended" many RFC loans which later went sour. This he did, the Report continued, on the advice of E. Merle Young, later indicted...
Welterweight Billy Graham had fought Champion Kid Gavilan three times before. Irish Billy took a split decision in one of two nontitle bouts. Cuba's "Kid Hawk" won the other, plus a title defense against Billy-also on split decisions. But the last time Slugger Graham tangled with Boxer Gavilan, Billy's admirers were bitter as they left Madison Square Garden. They muttered darkly that Billy had been robbed; they began calling him "the champ without the crown...
...sweltering evening this week, some 40,000 fans flocked to Havana's Gran Stadium to watch Billy make his second try at deposing the champ with the crown. From the first bell, Gavilan had Graham fighting just the way he wanted him to. When bullish Billy charged in, cat-quick Gavilan feinted him into leading, then countered with jabs as swift as the beat of a hawk's wing; by Round 2, Billy's nose was bloodied...
Sparingly using his famed bolo punch the Kid kept battering Graham's head, shut one eye, half-shut the other. After 15 rounds, Graham was hanging on; this time Kid Hawk's decision was unanimous...