Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A man who knows the Atlantic almost as well as his own washbowl. Grandpa Max Conrad, 57, who has crossed that ocean 56 times on solo flights in light aircraft, set down at Washington's Army and Navy Club to get a yard-high, gold-plated trophy honoring two...
"It Is Your Right." Since the very next meeting of the French Community's executive council was to be held in Mali, a showdown with Paris was unavoidable. Three weeks ago De Gaulle invited the leaders of Mali to Paris, and when they asked for full, free control of...
For three months the country's 9,000,000 voters had endured every variety of speech, parade and accusation. In the slums of Lagos, naked children ran through the streets blowing "ZEE-EEK" on whistles handed out by supporters of Eastern Region Premier Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, or noisily deflated...
On her own at last, Anna Maria Louise Italiano chose the Hollywood name, Anne Bancroft, from a list handed out by Darryl Zanuck; it was the only name, she thought, that "did not sound like I should look like Lana Turner." Hollywood historians remember her first movie, Don't...
Died. Jim Bottomley, 59, jaunty left-handed first baseman who helped bat the St. Louis Cardinals to the National League pennant four times in a decade (1922-32), in one game (1924) batted in twelve runs on six hits, the major league record; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...