Word: madisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, Oct. 31--Featherweight Champion Hogan Kid Bassey, a stubby warrior from Nigeria, dropped shifty Carmelo Costa twice on the way to an unanimous decision tonight in a non-title 10-rounder at Madison Square Garden. Bassey weighed 127, Costa...
Princeton, long an important voice in the most advanced areas of educational thinking, has once again taken the lead in scholastic liberalism. The James Madison Assembly, an undergraduate debating group, has decided by an overwhelming vote of 26 to 9 that Brigitte Bardot should receive a degree of Doctor of Physical Education from that university...
Although the new-style Russian advertising is expected to be "evocative, varied and beautiful," Sovetskaya Kultura added a final cautionary nudge before Soviet admen got too carried away by brain-storming in the Madison Avenue manner: "Capitalistic advertising is noisy and offensive. It stuns a customer. And its sole aim is to get rid of the goods by any method available." As sample of the kind of "persistent, shrill" U.S. slogans Russia does not want, the editor cited what he said was a U.S. slogan, although this will be news in Atlanta: "Coca-Cola is good for your body...
...blithe spirits, 17-year-old James T. Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa lifted his right hand to take the oath of allegiance required of Navy enlistees, thereby followed in the footsteps of his father Albert and four uncles (George, Francis, Madison and Joseph) who as the Fighting Sullivans served together as bluejackets during World War II, died together when the cruiser Juneau was torpedoed near Guadalcanal...
...others: John Adams, who reached 90; Thomas Jefferson, 83; James Madison, 85; John Quincy Adams...