Word: home-town
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sportswriter who never covered anything more exciting than home-town boxing bouts for Texas' San Antonio News, young (29) Dan Cook nursed a Technicolored dream: to stop the presses for a Page One beat. One night last week-as he later told the story-an anonymous phone call promised the big chance. The caller tipped him to "the biggest robbery pulled since the Brink's job"-the theft of $200,000 from a safe in Houston, some 200 miles to the east. The voice even gave Cook the address and automobile license number of the robber...
When it was all over Lamb counted his costs ($35,000), licked his wounds and bravely talked of next year. But even in defeat, he drew little sympathy. Editorialized his home-town Toledo Blade:"Here in Toledo, where Mr. Lamb's personality and methods have not won him quite the esteem which the Seiberlings seem to enjoy in Akron, the prevailing view will be that it couldn't have happened to a more deserving fellow...
...Hand. At 47, New Jersey's Meyner is an old hand at upsetting applecarts. One of the most eligible bachelors in U.S. politics, he practiced law in Jersey City and home-town Phillipsburg, went to the state senate in 1947, became one of the leaders in ousting Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague from the seat of Democratic power in 1949. Four years later Meyner was nominated for governor. He promptly announced that, win or lose in the general election, he was assuming direct personal leadership of the state organization and intended to retain it for the next...
...mixed but, under city ordinance, not the audience, came 4,000 whites one evening last week to hear a variety troupe one-nighting through the South with Negro Singer Nat "King" Cole featured. For the musky-voiced baritone, born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, this was almost a home-town audience; he spiced Autumn Leaves with an extra lilt, then crooned into Little Girl. With the second chorus came pandemonium...
Whenever Lehigh wrestlers travel out of town, half of Bethlehem huddles over its radios to get a hold-by-hold report. When the Engineers take on a visiting team, home-town rooters pack the house. Last week, when Ike and his teammates wrestled with Penn State, some 3,300 fans elbowed their way into Lehigh's Grace Hall, and not until the champ had pinned his man with a reverse chancery and body press did the town relax. Saddened by Lehigh's team loss, 17-13, John Pappajohn, 59, a local shoemaker and undisputed dean of Bethlehem wrestling...