Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iowa's Governor Leo Hoegh rattled off a memorized greeting in Russian, and one delegate delivered a rehearsed speech in English: "Hello, my friends. I'm glad to see you. Here we are. Goodbye." At a Cedar Rapids luncheon, the Russian visitors almost jumped out of their shoes when 275 lowans, singing the Corn Song, suddenly raised their arms - a gesture resembling the party salute - to illustrate the song's last line: "That's where the tall corn grows!" Later the Russians learned the words, sang it themselves with gestures (but no clenched fist...
...Giants, faltering in the National League's fourth place, were ambushed in Minneapolis at an exhibition game with their farm club, bowed to the Millers, 9-5. This ignominy triggered some rumors, led Club President Horace Stoneham, on the spot, to issue two flat denials: 1) Giant Manager Leo ("the Lip") Durocher has no intention of quitting, nor will he be fired; 2) the Giants will not leave New York. The Giants, however, did leave fading (34) Outfielder Monte Irvin, key man on the pennant-winning club in 1951, down on the farm...
Elementary. In Milwaukee, Veteran Cops Franklin A. Smith and Franklin F. Berg took - Rookie Cop Leo S. Markowski out to show him how to question suspicious persons, picked out two soldiers who happened to be wandering by, promptly drew admissions from them that they were AWOL from Fort Ord, had committed burglaries in Las Vegas, Denver and Nebraska, had a gun hidden in a nearby alley for use in a planned filling-station holdup...
Winners were also announced for the Clemens Herschel book awards ($20 for each recipient). They go to E. Leo Slaggie, Jr. '56, William R. Samples 2G, Fredrick J. Burgess 1G, and Mark J. Beran 3G. All did "meritorious work in the field of practical hydraulics...
Allow me to congratulate you for your brilliant article on Belgian Congo. A few years ago I was lucky enough to go and work and get acquainted in the "timeless jungle" with those "dwarf antelope," and in "Black and White Leo" with those "highly trained business executives...