Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan (44): For as long as he likes, Governor G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams, who has attacked Stevenson's "moderation," can hold Michigan for his favorite son candidacy. Then he can deliver the delegation to the candidate of his choice...
...family went holidaying on the Jersey shore. But Ray Cone knew an athlete when he saw one. Little Carin took to the water so naturally that he sent her to a swimming coach to find out how good she really was. Today, at 16, Carin is good enough to hold all four American women's backstroke titles (100 and 200 yds., 100 and 200 meters). Last week, in the National A.A.U.'s women's championships at Tyler, Texas, Carin pinwheeled up the Olympic (50-meter) course to a new record of 2:43.8 in the 200-meter...
...Japanese after U.S., Soviet and British bomb tests. In understandably jittery Hiroshima, welfare agencies publish bulletins after each rain to assure the citizens that it is not dangerous. In Osaka schoolchildren are told to wear plastic raincoats with hoods. One school held drills to teach the children how to hold their umbrellas so that their hands and faces would not get spattered. Policemen in Itami demanded plastic gloves because their service raincoats do not cover their hands...
Manhattan's other major morning papers, the Herald, Tribune and Hearst's Daily Mirror, picked up the story. As clamoring rewrite men and reporters called Nassau County headquarters to check their tips, they were, asked by police to hold up the story until after the ransom deadline next day, in hope the kidnaper would collect the ransom and return the baby...
...request to the city desk and call back. By 8 p.m. Police Secretary John MacDonald started telephoning the other morning papers to get formal confirmation of their pledge to withhold the story. But, said police, at about 8:30 p.m., the News had called to say it could not hold the story; by then a small early edition of the News was on the street with a brief bulletin on the case. Half an hour later the tabloid's big second edition bannered the kidnaping on Page One, ran a full account inside. MacDonald promptly called the other morning...