Word: hoosier
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Died. Louise Fazenda Wallis, 66, gawky Hoosier screen comedienne of the silent days-and wife of Veteran Producer Hal Wallis-who starred in Keystone comedies as the farmer's tomboy daughter (her pigtails were insured for $10,000 by Mack Sennett). later mugged her hilarious way through some 300 Hollywood films in roles from Indian squaw to lady blacksmith without ever losing her gift of grimace; of a stroke; in Hollywood...
...game, led Muncie's Central High to the finals of the state championships, and headed an Indiana All-Star team that trounced the Kentucky All-Stars, 101-64. Indiana coaches and sportswriters voted him "Mr. Basketball," touted him as the brightest college prospect to come out of the Hoosier State since the great Oscar ("Big O") Robertson (TIME cover, Feb. 17). Deluged with scholarship offers, Bonham packed off to home-state Purdue. He stayed just three days ("I decided that four years is a long time to be unhappy"), went home to reconsider other offers. Bonham's final...
...holes so effectively that he scored two touchdowns in a frenzied third quarter that buried Irish hopes (17-7). Last week against Indiana, Saimes, though nursing a painfully bruised right leg, bulled his way for one touchdown, intercepted a pass, and stormed up from the secondary to slam down Hoosier ball carriers as the Spartans won easily...
...every Republican Convention since 1936, Indiana Congressman Charlie Halleck has backslapped his way among the delegates, like the Hoosier horse trader that he is. In 1940 he nominated fellow Indianian Wendell Willkie for the presidency. In 1948 Halleck swung Old Guard Indiana to Internationalist Tom Dewey on the promise, he thought, of the vice-presidential nomination (California's Earl Warren got it). In 1952 Halleck's support of Dwight Eisenhower was a sharp blow to the embittered forces of Ohio's Bob Taft. In 1956 he nominated...
Last week Hoosier Halleck was hoisted from the floor to the rostrum to be permanent chairman of next month's Republican Convention in Chicago. National Chairman Thruston Morton, with a nod from Vice President Nixon, overlooked plain-mugged Charlie Halleck's lack of TV appeal, heeded Halleck's claim to the job by virtue of being the House Republican leader. Knowing Halleck's onetime dreams of a Nixon-Halleck ticket (unshared by Nixon), G.O.P. brass hoped that Halleck would accept the chairman's gavel as his full reward for work well done...