Word: lewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lew Douglas' career in public service began one night in 1922, in the roistering, hillside copper-mining town of Jerome (Ariz.), when a group of citizens sought out a begrimed, grinning mucker and asked him to run for the state legislature on the Democratic ticket. Since then, Lewis W. (for Williams) Douglas, 52, has been led far afield from his chosen career in mining. Last week, President Truman called him from the presidency of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York to be United States Ambassador to England. He will succeed North Carolina's O. Max Gardner...
Arizona Roots. When the call to the ambassadorship came last week, Lew Douglas was in Phoenix which he still calls home. His family roots are deep in Arizona's arid soil. His grandfather left Scotland and a career as a scholar to go prospecting, and hit the jackpot with the fabulous Copper Queen mine at Bisbee. His father, "Rawhide Jim" Douglas, discovered the U.V.X. mine...
...first time since the Dartmouth game. Sharpshooting center Dave Farrell, and the able assists of wings Johnny Crocker and Bob Feloney, have been sparking the first line, while Sid Greeley of the second trio will be out to repeat his scoring spree started against Princeton. Dick Greeley and Lew Preston are slated to start at defense...
Over station WJZ Manhattan Adman Lew Kashuk last week plumbed a new deep: a singing commercial for singing commercials. Excerpt...
...Dark Mirror. Suave whodunit with Olivia de Havilland and Lew Ayres (TIME...