Word: lane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Munro will take three midfields on the trip, all veterans of last year's dark days: Fuzzy Stewart, Jim Gale, and Tom Draper; Mike Holmes, Barry Saxe, and Mike Durham; Maclay Hyde, Johnny Lane, and Tony Ostheimer...
While the text follows reasonably closely to Sorokin's basic theses, less care has been taken with the pictures. These range from a traditional pose of young love in a country lane, to a more unorthodox one of a G.I. with one arm around his buddy and the other arm around his bottle...
...years as Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts' Seventh District, Thomas J. Lane shouted no loud hurrahs. He went after no headline-making legislation, built up no powerful machine; his campaigning was neither colorful nor costly. He dressed unostentatiously, usually in blue suits; he neither drank nor smoked nor went out on the town nights; he read almost nothing but magazines and the newspapers (at bedtime, as sedatives) ; he owned a Cadillac he did not like to drive. His great pleasure, it seemed, was to stop strangers in the streets, in buses, in soda fountains, where he would talk understandingly about...
...Lawrence, Mass. Lane built up a prosperous private law practice and invested in real estate. He continued to live with his shy and retiring wife in the modest frame house where he was born. He relaxed in consort with his constituents: "If there's a group of war veterans meeting in Lynn or a Jewish organization meeting in Chelsea, Tom Lane will be there," a friend explained. "Three weeks ago he attended at least six affairs in Revere, Lynn and Chelsea-all on one Sunday. He just never lets up. He'll look in the paper, see that...
Last week Congressman Lane was preparing for a fight in the House Ways and Means Committee against the Organization for Trade Cooperation (he believed OTC would reduce tariffs, hurt his textile worker constituents) when he got some bad news. In Boston a federal grand jury indicted him on three counts of evading $38,542 in income taxes. In 1949, according to the indictment, Congressman Lane declared, on a joint return with his wife, an income of $14,311 when his actual income was $57,497; in 1950 he declared $20,991 when his actual income...