Word: kokomo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edgar Landon Apperson, 89, auto industry pioneer, who built one of the world's first cars; in Phoenix, Ariz. In 1893 Apperson put together his first car in a little shop in Kokomo, Ind., later produced annually 1,500 cars (called Jackrabbits), prophesied in 1943: "When the American people are willing to sacrifice showing off, they'll get a lighter car built of light materials that will be cheaper...
...helped by an unusually strong Marion County Democratic ticket. In the Ninth (Aurora) District, lone-wolf Republican Earl Wilson, 52, running as usual without help from the state G.O.P. organization, needs a good rural turnout to hold his seat against Bartholomew County Sheriff Earl Hogan, 38-In the Fifth (Kokomo) District, archconservative, teetotaling Republican John Beamer, 61, is fighting for his life against vigorous, teetotaling Huntington County Lawyer J. Edward Roush...
IRENE LEMIEUX Kokomo...
...from squiring Stateside VIPs around the island (their code word for the chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee is "God"). But with a wobbly assist now and then, Marblehead carries on. To give the home front "the little picture," he promotes what he calls a "Joe Blow of Kokomo" campaign to locate the typical young...
...opinion as a native of Kokomo (rhymes with ho-ho-ho) is that a rhyming dictionary ain't a good thing to tour Indiana with. In that state, where Peru rhymes with Pee-roo, Brazil rhymes not so much with Hazel as Bray-zill...