Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With enough tail wind to lend a hand but not enough to materially ruffle the waters of the Basin, Coolidge jumped into an early lead which was never seriously challenged. He finished with an estimated four and one-half lengths of open water between himself and his nearest rival...
...drug companies angrily denied the charges. Prices of vaccine, they noted, had been cut five times, to a little over half the initial price. "It would be a strange conspiracy," said Eli Lilly's President Eugene N. Beesley, "that had as its purpose repeated decreases in prices -never an increase.'' Lilly's average profit, said Beesley, was only 6¼? per dose, against which the company took the gamble of producing vaccine without assurance of a market. Currently, Lilly has an inventory of 24,043,000 doses. Since demand has fallen way off, Lilly may have...
Died. Thomas Lunsford Stokes, 59, Pulitzer prizewinning old-school newsman (motto: "A reporter is half brain, half legs"), University of Georgia Phi Beta Kappa who got his early lessons in journalism on Southern newspapers and the U.P., in political reporting under the late Raymond Clapper in the '205; of a brain tumor; in Washington. As reporter for Scripps-Howard, astute New Dealer Tom Stokes won his 1939 Pulitzer for exposing the role of the New Deal's WPA as a lever in Kentucky Democratic politics, set up as United Features columnist in 1944, was syndicated to 105 newspapers...
Luftwaffe lieutenant who called himself "Baron" von Werra and claimed he had bagged at least 13 British planes before he was shot down over southern England in 1940. When the British disdainfully disproved about half of Von Werra's claims, he only laughed and proposed a wager: "A magnum of champagne against ten cigarettes that I escape in six months...
...potential husband, if only they can take his mind off his tax forms and put it on Mariette's still flawless figure. Ma starts fattening up Cedric with goodies from the "frige." Pop rechristens the tax man "Charlie," and plies him with a Rolls-Royce ("half vermouth, quarter whisky, quarter gin, dash of orange bitters") followed by a Chauffeur ("one-third vermouth, one-third whisky, one-third gin, dash of Angostura"). At first day's end. a cocktail-shaken Charlie, decked in Mariette's pajamas, goes to sleep on the billiard table while cooing sweet nothings...