Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leo Durocher (April 14, 1947), then baseball's highest-paid manager, was suspended for the entire season a day before his cover picture got to Brooklyn. (Durocher's luck nowadays is better than that of the Commissioner who booted...
...been broken from big-city dailies to a job covering the humdrum local news of Albuquerque. Hungering for a break that will send him back to the big time, he stumbles on a disaster reminiscent of the Floyd Collins story of 1925: a cave-in has pinned Leo Minosa, owner of a roadside curio shop, deep in a nearby labyrinth of ancient Indian cliff dwellings...
...shoring up the crumbling passageways, a rescue party could get him out in a matter of hours. But Reporter Douglas, taking command of the rescue operations, wants the story-and Leo's suffering-to stretch out for at least a week. Douglas gets his way by appealing to the worst instincts of two other crooks: a vicious sheriff (Ray Teal), who welcomes publicity for his electioneering, and Minosa's unloving wife (well played by Jan Sterling), who is all set to desert her husband until Reporter Douglas shows her how to make a fast buck by sticking around...
...entombment and settle down cheerfully in tents and trailers for a morbid spectators' holiday. With them come radio and TV showmen and a neon-lighted traveling carnival, with Ferris wheel, pitchmen, hamburger stands and a hillbilly band bawling a specially concocted ballad, We're Coming, Leo...
Triumph of Truth. Not until the reign of Pius IX (1846-78) and his successor Leo XIII did the Ecclesiastical Academy begin to become the major source of church talent and brains that it is today. From all over the world promising young men are now brought there for two years of juridical and diplomatic study before going on for their practical training in the State Secretariat...