Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SERGEANT JOHN LLOYD ran a motor pool. Helping a war correspondent fix a flat tire, Lloyd talked very American talk, and very happy. "You need any gas? I am the stingiest man alive with gas. Anybody comes in here with more than half a tank don't get any, that's all. They get mad. But when we get orders to move, I have got some saved up, and then I'm not such a bad guy." The tire repaired, Sergeant Lloyd went over to a compressor which would not work, turned a screw, took hold...
...Newark (N.J.) News (circ. 257,000) one day last week, Editor Lloyd M. Felmly studied some advance proofs of the comic strip, Rex Morgan, M.D., and came to a sharp decision. He killed the strip, in its place ran an explanation: future sequences "dealt with an attempted mercy killing and had no place on this comic page...
...Wednesday. An uneven but often funny comedy, written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Harold Lloyd (TIME...
...When Lloyd Jordan was appointed football coach last spring, one of his first acts was to name as his trainer Jack Fadden, a native of Brookline and, at the time, the property of the New York football Yankees. This surprised many people, since a new coach does not ordinarily bring in his own trainer. But Jordan's coaching methods place great emphasis on proper conditioning and John Patrick Fadden is one of the finest practitioners of his trade available...
Captains & Gamy Confessions. It was true again in 1950, as in almost every recent year, that the readers of history and biography had the best pickings. Lloyd Lewis died with only one volume of his biography of General Ulysses S. Grant completed, but Captain Sam Grant was a fine, thorough book, the best job ever done on Grant's early years. Another big job done with care and spirit was Margaret Coit's John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, a sympathetic and fair study of the great diehard South Carolinian. Catherine Drinker Bowen put too much fictional gloss...