Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting began at 8:50 a.m. on a grey, sticky morning last weekend, after a marine helicopter put Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus down on the lawn of Dwight Eisenhower's vacation headquarters at Newport, R.I. First the President and the governor talked alone for 20 minutes behind the drawn blinds of a tiny office. Then they moved to an adjoining room for a two-hour conference with Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams, and Arkansas' Democratic Representative Brooks Hays, who had helped arrange the meeting (see below...
...Highhanded and hardheaded as ever, the executive committee of the United States Lawn Tennis Association listened to a report from a special committee unanimously recommending open tournaments between pros and amateurs, hardly took time for a haughty huff before unanimously squelching the suggestion...
...Army pay and allowances (monthly total: roughly $670). There are four youngsters to feed and clothe: rambunctious, outgoing David, 9; lively, pigtailed Barbara Anne, 8; Susan Elaine, 6; and Mary Jean, 20 months. David and his sisters play with the neighborhood children, and Barbara gets out and mows the lawn. Says John: "If David gets into a fight the Secret Service men stay...
...about five days by using a new weed killer just put on sale in Canada by Inventor Robert Blain of Calgary. A 2-ft., lipsticklike bar composed of raw wax, crude oil and 2, 4-D, Blain's Weedmaster Block is merely dragged once over the lawn to coat the grass with weed killer. Price of a 4-lb. bar, enough to protect about 4,000 sq. ft. of grass for two years...
Unmoved, New Jersey's Maplewood Country Club refused to let Althea on its courts during the New Jersey State championship. But the Orange Lawn Tennis Club in South Orange, NJ. unbent and invited Althea to the 1950 Eastern Grass Court championships. She went, and got whipped in the second round. But she had earned her bid to Forest Hills...