Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bathtub tumble at her Hollywood home, grand old (78) Actress Ethel Barrymore broke a forearm bone, thus was out of action for this week's filming of a CBS-TV melodrama, The Brand of Jesse James, in which she was to play the bad man's grandma...
...raped in the school basement. Later a hoodlum from the outside punched a policeman on the school grounds, and two other hoodlums, also from the outside, assaulted the school's recreation director. As a result of these incidents, Principal George Goldfarb, 55, was twice called before a special grand jury investigating juvenile delinquency in the schools. He was supposed to appear a third time last week...
Without a Word. An intense and dedicated man with 33 years' service in the New York City school system, Schoolmaster Goldfarb seemed worn down and overwhelmed by the troubles that beset him. The night before he was to testify before the grand jury he had mailed a letter to the police department asking that a patrolman be stationed inside his school. Next morning he appeared as usual at his office before 8, took up some routine matters with his staff, at 9:30 left the building, having said that he was due to go to the courthouse...
...could say. But instead of responsible action, the tragedy merely provoked the ugliest kind of recriminations. At the funeral, President Charles Silver of the Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools William Jansen charged to newsmen that Principal Goldfarb had probably been driven to suicide because a grand juror had threatened that he might "be indicted." The jury's foreman immediately denied the accusation, countercharged that the suicide was the result of Goldfarb's fear that his superiors would take revenge on him for cooperating in the grand jury's inquiry. The grand jury, which had already...
...widening length. Same day he brought in another winner and placed twice, pushing his record to 23 winners (plus 13 seconds, 11 thirds) out of 88 mounts in Hialeah's first 14 days. He is running at last year's pace?and last year's pace, a grand total of 341 firsts, including an alltime record of 43 stakes races, made Willie Hartack the No. 1 U.S. jockey. His horses ran off with a record $3,000,000, and the jockey's 10% pushed Hartack's gross income toward a comfortable $300,000. In only five years of racing...