Word: leas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Lea, Minn., he put in a word for Senator Joe Ball, who deserted him in 1944 to support Roosevelt and who is now fighting for his political life against Minneapolis' bouncing Mayor Hubert Humphrey. Ball, smiling bleakly, was allowed to stand on the rear platform with the candidate. A tomato hurled by another hoodlum grazed Ball's shoulder...
Near Turin, Cinemactor Orson Welles was feeling shaky. He and his new friend, Italian Cinemactress Lea Padovani, were crash-landed in a pasture on their way to a benefit. No bones broken...
...grumped Trainer Jimmy Jones. "Why couldn't a fellow have these two horses in separate years?" The two wonder horses-Citation and Coaltown-were the same age (3), had the same daddy (Bull Lea) and the same owner (Calumet Farm). Apparently, each was the other's only competition: it seemed a sheer waste of horsepower to put both of them on the same race track...
This was too much for Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl. Next day, on his orders, about 2,500 National Guardsmen, swiftly mobilized in rural areas, moved into South St. Paul, Newport and Albert Lea, where there had been some slugging. It was the first time in 14 years that Minnesota's militia had been called to keep strike order...
...Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House is preparing Jean-Paul Sartre's "Lea Mooches" for performances in Boston on March 15, 16, and 17. This play, first performed in occupied France, is a yelled attack against Tyranny act in a framework of the ancient Greek city state...