Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roster of hardy booklovers who could never quite untangle its polysyllabic characters distinctly enough to muddle through War and Peace, a distinguished new name was added. The bored nonreader: Author Leo Tolstoy himself. In Chicago, on the eve of her 70th birthday, the great Russian novelist's daughter, Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, confided that her unpredictable father preferred his folk tales and short stories to the eye-straining 687,000 words of his most famous novel. "He never reread War and Peace," said she. "And when he heard us reading it aloud one day, he didn't even recognize...
...robbed of $1,470 by a man and a girl. Filling Station Attendant L. B. Rothwell offered police one solid clue: "She was very, very well-built-I mean, she had one of the best figures I've ever seen." Psychic Bid. In Du Quoin, Ill., Hardware Dealer Leo Hindman had a sign stenciled on his safe, "Positively not locked. No money in safe. Turn handle and open," was robbed of $700 when burglars followed instructions...
Also cited by the House were Barrows Dunham, Temple University philosophy professor, whose case appears in detail elsewhere in the paper; two public school teachers, Wilbur Leo Mahaney, Jr., Trappe, Pa., and Mrs. Goldic E. Watson, of Philadelphia; Ole Fagerhaugh, Oak-land, California, warehouseman, John T. Watkins, Rock Island, Illinois, official of the Farm Equipment Workers Union, CIO, and Francis X.T. Crowley of New York City...
...Venice. He was still poor, still giving away his few belongings and launching quixotic business ventures to help his flock. To one visitor he complained that a gold watch he had been given was engraved with the patri archal arms and therefore could not be pawned. When Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and Cardinal Sarto had to go to Rome for the conclave, he did not have enough money for the railroad fare and the Catholic bank in Venice refused to lend it to him. He got his loan from a Jewish friend and bought a round-trip ticket...
...taxes. Such old-time Texas millionaires as Jesse Jones, who owns dozens of Houston's choicest buildings, and Publisher Amon Carter, whose Fort Worth Star-Telegram is Texas' biggest paper (circ. 241,582), were able to amass their first riches in other fields. So was Dallas' Leo Corrigan, who has pyramided his real-estate holdings to an estimated $500 million (latest project: a $5,000,000 resort hotel in Nassau). But by & large, the big Texas fortunes are now founded on oil and the liberal tax provisions that go with it. Samples: ¶Haroldson Lafayette Hunt...