Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just to set the record straight regarding Reader Smith Freeman's letter [Jan. 12] it was my dad, the late James W. ("Jim") Curran, founder, publisher and editor of the Star, who put up and backed a $100 offer for 25 years (1925-50) to anyone who could establish "to the satisfaction of the editor" that a wolf had attacked a human being. The offer was limited to the Algoma District because "it would not be convenient for us to travel outside the confines of this large district...
Claims for the prize averaged about a dozen a year in the late '20s, and probably totaled 90 in all. In none was a wolf attack established...
...began his speech, with an ovation still ringing in his ears, Johnson recalled what the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn had once told him: "The Congress always extends a very warm welcome to the President-as he comes in." From now on, the welcome is likely to be a good deal cooler...
...exhilarated," Romney confessed in his hotel late one night. All day he had tramped relentlessly through snow and ice at 5 m.p.h. to buttonhole voters, or had communed with groups of from 20 to 100 in homes rigged out as Romney headquarters across the state...
...leather-jacketed Litvinov was a conspicuous figure during the closed-door trial. Not allowed inside the courtroom, he talked outside with foreign correspondents and signed a statement branding the proceeding a "wild mockery." He has managed to avoid arrest so far only because he is the grandson of the late Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, and thus the scion of an old Bolshevik family. "I am definitely not a revolutionary, but neither am I an organization man," he says. "I must do what my heart tells me." Still uncowed after his dismissal, Litvinov announced that he would fight...