Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haul. In Montreal, two thugs strongarmed Grocer Argiro Telefougiou into a back room, then got away with an adding machine they thought was a cash register...
...right start, to Seaton's mind: a vote for 1) young (39) Mike Stepovich (TIME, June 9), who resigned from the governorship to run for the U.S. Senate against aging (71) onetime Governor Ernest Gruening; 2) Territorial Senator John Butrovich Jr., 48, for Governor v. Valdez Grocer William Egan...
...term of the late Harley Kilgore, is a handsome grandfather, a tireless, bassoon-throated campaigner, a conservative flailing at apathetic Republican voters. His opponent is conservative, too, but fast-moving, breezy Robert C. Byrd, 40, father of two girls (aged 21 and 17), is hard to beat. A former grocer and three-term Congressman, he shrewdly turns on the corn at country meetings, singing and playing the fiddle (Bile Them Cabbages Down), recites inspirational poetry (God Give Us Men), advocates old-age pensions for 60-year-olds. Republicans are circulating a letter written by Byrd in 1946 in which...
...head of 3,000,000 Episcopalians in the U.S. is the son of an Oshkosh grocer, was educated at Ohio's Kenyon College and the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass. He was dean of Trinity Cathedral in Newark from 1941-48, spent the next three years as professor of pastoral theology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. Handsome, jovial "Lichty" Lichtenberger, onetime choir boy, football player and still a devoted Milwaukee Braves fan, holds a solid middle ground between high and low church. He is also known as a wheel in the ecumenical movement. When he heard...
...third son of a Milwaukee grocer of German descent, he showed an early leaning to the priesthood (his sister, a nun, remembers that at the age of five he used to play at saying Mass with a cloth over an old table and a glass of water for the chalice of wine). In his early parish at Waukesha, Wis., and later as bishop of Superior, Wis., Meyer was more noted as an able administrator than as a fighter for causes, has rarely committed himself on social issues...