Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie McCarthy, world-famed ventriloquist's dummy, began a two-year U.S. tour in which he hopes to put all 48 governors on the air-as stooges to a blockhead. His first victim, Oklahoma's big, burly Governor Robert Kerr, proved that a statesman could be as good a straight man as anyone else...
Charlie (not recognizing Governor Kerr): Say, your face looks familiar. . . . Are you wanted by the state...
...China's Premier T. V. Soong was the first to alight. He wore a blue suit, but not his horn-rimmed spectacles. Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov greeted him. The foreign colony stood by, including U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and British Ambassador Sir Archibald Clark Kerr. A guard of honor snapped to attention. A band played the national anthems of China and Russia...
Clearly enough, the future has its bright aspects. Besides question-mark Voiselle, there are two top sophomores on the present club: Third Baseman Napoleon Reyes (25), and Shortstop Johnny Kerr (22). Cuban-born Reyes is a flashy, high-stepping crowd-pleaser. Lanky Johnny Kerr is a speedster, and already one of the top short fielders in the game...
...year-old Scotsman, depressed, put a bullet through his brain with a .45 service revolver, leaving a 1¼-inch hole in his forehead. What happened thereafter was so astonishing that Edinburgh's Principal Police Surgeon Douglas J. A. Kerr reported it in last week's Lancet...