Word: haydon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deaths from overdoses of opiates were common. Dadd survived this hell for six years. In 1852, Dr. William Hood, a pioneer in England of modern mental therapy, was assigned to Bethlehem. Hood encouraged Dadd to take up brush and pencil once again. Hood's hospital steward, George Henry Haydon, was an amateur artist and encouraged Dadd further. Dadd dedicated The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke to Haydon, gave it to him before he died at the age of 67 in 1886. The late poet Siegfried Sassoon, who gave it to London's Tate Gallery in 1963, inherited...
...California, Australia's Roy Emerson and the U.S.'s Billie Jean King the No. 1 -ranked male and female amateurs in the world, both signed pro contracts, along with three other ranking women: Britain's Ann Haydon Jones, France's Francoise Durr and the J.S.'s Rosemary Casals. "This does a great deal to clear my conscience," said Billie Jean. "I'll admit I made my living as an amateur-but it wasn't close to what I can make...
Champion & a Lady. It took Billie Jean a whole year to come up with an answer. Two weeks ago, in one magnificent afternoon at Wimbledon, she 1) polished off Britain's Ann Haydon-Jones to win the singles again, 2) teamed with Rosemary Casals to beat Maria Bueno and Nancy Richey for the doubles title, and 3) combined with Owen Davidson to capture the mixed doubles. It was a feat last accomplished by Doris Hart...
...Demo-Kirks." The man who changed that, and thus gave Republican Kirk his big chance, was Tennessee-born Bob High, now in his fifth term as mayor of Miami. Proclaiming that "the issue is integrity," Teetotaler High upset Incumbent Governor Haydon Burns in an acrimonious Democratic primary fight (TIME, June 3). Burns has withheld support from High, and many Burns followers-including the wealthiest backers-have become "Demo-Kirks...
...Pete Timesmen cover a geriatric city, but they need their youth to keep up with the paper's tradition of aggressive, investigative reporting. The paper won a 1964 Pulitzer Prize for its scandal-packed report on a Florida turnpike boondoggle; most recently, it took out after Governor Haydon Burns with stories attacking him for nepotism and doing questionable favors for an insurance man. The Times's crusade helped defeat Burns's re-election bid in the May primary...