Word: laurelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Troy Hawkins, 32, the wife of a Laurel, Miss. postal worker, was up most of the night with her small daughter, who was ill. It was 4 a.m. when Mrs. Hawkins finally snapped off the light and dozed off with her arm around her daughter. She was awakened by a man crawling up to the bed in the darkness. According to her testimony, after threatening to "cut your goddamed throat if you holler," the intruder raped her and fled...
...year old Negro, three times convicted and condemned in a case that attracted world-wide attention, was taken to Laurel, Mississippi...
Another Derby candidate, Mrs. Nora Mikell's Repetoire, winner of Experimental Free Handicap No. 1, stayed well up on the list of top three-year-old colts by winning the $23,025 Chesapeake Stakes at Laurel race track. Repetoire, carrying a top-weighted 119 Ibs., ran the mile-and-a-sixteenth...
...last week the bookkeeping problem had become too much. For $1,800,000, Havre de Grace's owners sold out to agents for two other Maryland tracks: Alfred Vanderbilt's Pimlico and Morris Schapiro's Laurel Park. The new owners plan to shut down the old place, take over most of the racing days once allotted to the Graw...
Last week fellow coaches, voting in the Scripps-Howard newspapers annual poll, handed Charley the laurel wreath of the profession: they voted him "Coach of the Year." With III first-place votes out of 384, he led Runners-Up Lynn Waldorf of California (50 first-place votes), Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma (42), Bob Neyland of Tennessee (34), and 55 others...