Word: matthews
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...Cherry Point, N.C., Marine Pfc. Matthew C. McKeon, broken from staff sergeant for leading six Parris Island boots to their drowning in a disciplinary night march (TIME, April 23, Aug. 13, 1956), was voted "Marine of the Month" by his present outfit, the 114th All Weather Fighter Squadron...
Named last week to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of West Virginia's Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely: State Republican Chairman John Dempsey Hoblitzell Jr., 45, who directed the successful 1956 campaign of Republican Governor Cecil Underwood, first Republican governor of the state since 1928. Hoblitzell's appointment scales the Democratic majority in the Senate down from...
...Died. Matthew Mansfield Neely, 83, longtime (almost 25 years) Democratic Senator from West Virginia, onetime Representative and governor whose acid-tongued criticism and flowery eulogies became congressional legends; of cancer., after long illness; in Bethesda. Md. A fiery New Dealer, Neely served (since 1949) as chairman of the Senate's District of Columbia Committee (Washington's "unofficial mayor"). Republican Governor Cecil H. Underwood's expected appointment of a successor to Neely's Senate seat will reduce the Senate's Democratic majority from...
...MATTHEW PASSION (Bach): Soloists and Scherchen conducting Vienna Academy Chorus and State Opera Orchestra...
When Millionaire Contractor Matthew H. McCloskey sold his Philadelphia Daily News (circ. 192,401) to the Philadelphia Inquirer's Walter H. Annenberg last week, no one was more surprised than the News's publisher, David ("Tom") Stern III. Since taking over management of the ailing Democratic tabloid a year ago (TIME, Jan. 7), Philadelphia-born Tom Stern, 48, had cut its losses from $225,000 a month to $40,000 a month, and estimated that it would lose no more than $200,000 in 1958. "Given a reasonable amount of time, we would have had an independent...