Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many gunshot deaths as hangings). Some have become rude enough to hypothesize. State Pathologist Richard S. Woodruff blames the suicide rate on three local factors: 1) two centuries of inbreeding, 2) mental depression stimulated by lonely mountains and rugged climate, 3) lack of mental health facilities. State Tax Commissioner Leonard W. Morrison adds a practical fourth cause. Says he of a state where 87% of income tax returns show less than $5,000 income a year: "They're not lonely. They're poor...
There is a scattering of light verse by E.S. Stewart, who hails Leonard Bernstein as Lampy's hero of the month, and then masticates Cole Porter...
Enthusiastic amateur musicians are tuning up for their biggest season. The Sioux City Symphony (70 semipros and amateurs) opened with Met Baritone Leonard Warren as guest. The Cedar Rapids Symphony (69 amateurs and 17 members of the musicians' union) had a full house with, said Conductor Henry Denecke, "no one out with the flu and the bases loaded," i.e., all five bass chairs occupied, no simple matter in Cedar Rapids...
...Twentieth Century: Names make news, but do men shape history? For generations to come, while philosophers debate this question, historians will drape much of the story of the first half of the 20th century about the grand and portly frame of a name: Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. The historians got a powerful exhibit for their case this week from a new and promising CBS television series dedicated to The Twentieth Century. Examining the events that make up the recent past, dominate the present and tinker with the near future, The Twentieth Century (Sundays at 6 p.m.) began its 26-week...
...Leonard David Griffiths, 46, moved up from executive vice president to president of Fanny Farmer Candy Shops, which claims to be the largest U.S. retail manufacturer of candy. He succeeds James Francis Burke, 54, who replaces retiring Chairman John D. Hayes, company cofounder. A family man (four children) who spends his spare time gardening, President Griffiths joined Fanny Farmer in 1936 as an assistant manager, became a vice president...