Word: grovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturn over his Sun," and that is really bad. His conclusion: Stevenson, like a shooting star. ¶Adlai Stevenson, a pharmacist in Greenville, Texas, joined the national Stevensons-for-Eisenhower Club. Texas Adlai, no kin, though he was named for the Democratic candidate's grandfather (Vice President under Grover Cleveland), said he thinks there is "too much flip-flop stuff going on up in Washington." ¶Four big names in he world of arts and letters announced in New York that they were switching from Eisenhower to Stevenson. The four: Producer-Playwright George Abbott, Author Edna Ferber, Librettist-Producer...
...Paducah, Ky., the Stevenson party stopped off to visit "Angles,".home of Veep Alben Barkley, who served 140 fried chickens and eleven hams to his guests. During lunch at Angles, Stevenson was presented with a trophy of the 1892 presidential campaign-a watch-fob bearing the pictures of Democrat Grover Cleveland and his vice presidential running mate, Stevenson's grandfather. The giver, a Paducah lawyer, explained that he had had the watch fob for 60 years and he wanted Stevenson to keep it for another 60. "And when I get through with it." quipped Stevenson, "I'll give...
...Phillies' Robin Roberts, his 25th victory of the season; in Philadelphia. In edging the Reds 4-2, Roberts became the first major-league pitcher since 1949 (Mel Parnell), and the first Phillies pitcher since 1917 (Grover Cleveland Alexander), to reach the 25-game mark...
Ancestry: Paternal grandfather was Adlai Ewing Stevenson, a staunch Democrat who became known as "the headsman" because he swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll as First Assistant Postmaster General during Grover Cleveland's first term; was Vice President during Cleveland's second term. Maternal great-grandfather: Jesse W. Fell, an Illinois pioneer, a staunch Republican, close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Jesse Fell sponsored the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Father Lewis Green Stevenson, a Democrat, was Illinois' secretary of state...
...Winning Team (Warner) is a bleacher biography of baseball's late great Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan). Like The Pride of St. Louis (TIME, May 12), the movie life story of Dizzy Dean, The Winning Team dramatizes the ups & downs of Alexander's career in conventional and sometimes fanciful screen style. Alexander is depicted going from his telephone lineman's job to Midwest minor leagues in 1908, making a sensational major league debut with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1911 (28 won, 13 lost), and later becoming a pitching ace with the Chicago Cubs...