Word: lennon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenge them. One group of pirates ended up in a crew's quarters to collect money for a children's charity. Another group headed for the bridge, where a "good-natured bloke" turned on the public-address system so they could appeal for donations. Instead, "Pirate" Paul Lennon shouted: "Now hear this! The U.S.S. Bennington has been captured by Sydney University pirates!" Then, for good measure, says Lennon, "we turned two handles labeled 'Battle Alarm' and 'Chemical Warfare...
...battle stations. No one seemed to hear the PA system's agitated plea: "Belay that last order!" Meanwhile, the bridge pirates headed for the officers' quarters. Finally a steward asked them the question no one had thought of before: "What are you doing here?" "Of course," says Lennon, "we didn't have any answer...
...proclaimed: "Vote for Kerr Scott . . . [He] has aided our cause of nonsegregation . . . A friend of the Negro." In North Carolina the handbills were obviously no help at all to William Kerr Scott, 58, tobacco-chewing ex-governor running for the Senate seat to which little-known Attorney Alton Asa Lennon was appointed last July. Sure enough, it turned out, the handbills came from Lennon's supporters. Kerr Scott denounced the trick, swore his devotion to segregation. At week's end he won the Democratic primary anyway, beating Lennon and five other candidates...
...rookies took their places on the Hill. Vice President Nixon swore in Alton A. Lennon, 46, North Carolina lawyer, as successor (by gubernatorial appointment) to the late Senator Willis Smith. House Speaker Martin swore in James B. Bowler, 78, Chicago alderman, as successor (by victory in a by-election) to the late 23-term Representative Adolph Sabath...
...LENNON...