Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terribly surprised and disappointed . . . what's more I am getting more and more disappointed in your taste for "novelties" on covers. The May 30 cover [California's Governor Knight] is more appropriate for a seed catalogue...
Just before 3 o'clock in the morning, as the Pacific purred foamily on the beach at Santa Monica, California's robustious Republican Governor Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, 58, was awakened by stealthy sounds in the bedroom of his waterfront apartment. Turning on a lamp, he saw a crouching prowler beside wife Virginia's bed. Never better in a crisis, Goody Knight, a nocturnal symphony in blue and white pajamas, leaped up, lunged toward the intruder, shouting, "I'll get him! You call the cops!" As Virginia screamed girlishly, the crook escaped over...
...from the Crib. Now a pink and sturdy 49, Rorimer set out to become a connoisseur of art with the same care that another man might give to preparation for brain surgery or nuclear physics. Dürer's engraving of Knight, Death and Devil hung over his crib, he recalls, and "I was a wood carver before I was a Boy Scout. At nine, I took a course in arms and armor. I got two years off from prep school to visit the art centers of Europe...
...general staff from his trousers, took the officer's sword and broke it across his knee. The crowd roared its approval. In a small yard of the same school 11 ½ years later, the same officer stood before a brigadier general who intoned: "I make you a Knight of the Legion of Honor." Then the general pinned on the medal and kissed him on both cheeks. This time there was no crowd to watch, but when the decorated soldier rode away from the yard in an open carnage, 200,000 people jammed the neighboring streets to cheer...
CALIFORNIA TIDELANDS will soon get a bigger play from oil companies. Under a new bill signed by Governor Goodwin Knight, companies may drill from piers and barges, can lease most of California's 2,000,000 tideland acres on a cash-bonus-plus-royalty (a minimum 16 2/3% of production on proved offshore lands, 12½% on unproved fields) basis. Most exploration up to now has been by slant drilling from the shore...