Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the throng. Voices shouted greetings. Hands clapped his back, shook his hand, reached out from all directions. Flanked by his pals and deputies, he advanced through the tumult to his car. A newsman asked: "What are you going to do now, Governor?" Growled Earl Long: "I'm gonna be Governor...
Last week, pointedly ignoring each other off the court, the scowling Gonzales and the deadpan Hoad renewed their private duel at the $15,000 Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills, N.Y. "I think I'm as good as he is," declared Hoad, "and I know he thinks the same." For Gonzales, who has been gobbling vitamin pills to offset the weariness that plagued him earlier this year, the tournament was a chance to prove that he was still the greatest player in the world. Said Pancho: "I feel fit, very fit. Until Hoad beats me, I'm...
...playing an unmuted instrument. Long ago Jonah developed what fellow trumpeters call a "big-band lip," but he still finds the going tough if he does not carefully pace himself. "These people come in with requests," he says, "like I Can't Get Started, and I'm thinking about that F sharp on the end, and I think, 'Man, you can request, but this...
Died. Maurice M. Milligan, 74, tenacious U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri (1934-45), who toppled the corrupt Pendergast machine, sent Boss Tom Pendergast to jail for income tax evasion; in Kansas City, Mo. Milligan struck the entrenched machine at its vitals: the ballot box. He convicted 259 Pendergast lackeys for fraud in the 1936 election alone. He later lost (1940) a bitter primary race for U.S. Senator to Pendergast Protege Harry Truman, who as Vice President in 1945 closed Milligan's career-by blocking his reappointment...
...schedule of morning services is as follows: Tuesday, June 30: William Y. Elliott; Wed.-Fri, July 1-3: the Reverend Daniel C. Whitsett, Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church; Mon.-Tues. July 6-7, Dr. Dana M. Cotton; Wed.-Fri., July 8-10, George A. Selleck, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Wed., July 13-15, The Reverend James R. Blanning, United Ministry to Students; Thurs.-Fri., July 16-17, The Reverend Ronald D. Maitland, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues. July 20-21, Professor H. Anderson; Wed.-Fri., July 22-24, Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, United Ministry to Students; Mon.-Tues., July...