Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolute entrant in his state's championship tennis tournament, New Jersey's outdoorsy Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner, unseeded, wielded his racket as if he meant it, wound up with politics still a more rewarding dish for him. Weekend Tennist Meyner, 46, was eliminated, in his first round, in straight sets...
Frank W. Abrams, retired chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...view of New Amsterdam (opposite). From these Puritan beginnings, the red-and-white-striped flag gradually took on a national symbolism. It appeared in New York during the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, with nine red and white stripes-for New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and South Carolina-and was adopted by the Sons of Liberty, again as the "Stripes of Rebellion" (below...
...eighth annual Democrat-Republican baseball game in Washington. New Jersey's rippling (350 Ibs.) Democratic Representative T. (for Thomas) James Tumulty frisked through some horseplay with his teammate and close congressional pal, California's James Roosevelt, leftfielder. Bellowed Tumulty: "When I get up, I'll have to hit a home run because I sure could never run out a hit to first base!" When one-inning Third Baseman Tumulty came to bat, a pinch runner was ready to do his legwork for him, but hurly-burly "T.J." hit only a short dribbler, was thrown out at first...
...Some suspect that Tumulty is more opportunist than clown. In his own district, Jersey City's monthly Independent, a non-partisan newsletter, ticked him off in an imaginary interview. Sample: "Q". 'They say that you jump too easily / From the Donkey's back to the G.O.P./ Would you care to comment, Mr. T.?' A, 'I'm for only one party / A grand old party / And that grand old party...