Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The question was just as puzzling to his contemporaries. Donatien-Alphonse-François, Comte de Sade, was born in a Paris palace in 1740. His father was military ruler of four French provinces and lord of vast estates. His mother was of royal Bourbon blood. He was a youthful...
At a Hungarian relief concert in London, hot-lipped Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and five local cats out-blasted the whole blasted Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which sought to play under the hesitant, finally motionless, baton of Conductor Norman Del Mar. After running wild until shortly before midnight, Satchmo, on hand...
Once a promising Dodger farmhand, U.S.C. Alumnus Bill Sharman used to nurse fond dreams of big-league baseball. ("I'm the guy who was going to shove Snider out of center field," he remembers with a wry smile.) Now he knows that basketball is his game. He is so...
Died. Robert Louis (Bob) Olin, 48, cobble-faced onetime (1934-35) light-heavyweight boxing champ (he out-waltzed Maxie Rosenbloom for the title, lost it to John Henry Lewis on a decision), and since 1952 the proprietor of a cheesecake-and-cocktail oasis on Manhattan's Central Park West...
Died. Grace Reidy Comiskey, 62, blonde, baseball-wise widow of fleshy (400 lb.) J. Louis Comiskey. owner of the Chicago White Sox since his death in 1939; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Businesswoman Comiskey took over active control of the White Sox by breaking her husband's will...