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...worthy of his undivided attention, whether he was playing it or writing about it. As a sportswriter and editor for 40 years, Woodward, who died of bronchitis last week at 71, made athletics as important to his readers as they were to him. Quoting liberally from Latin and French, Milton and Shakespeare, he ranged over the entire world of sports, from its gambling to its psychology to its Jim Crowism. When a lady reporter once told him that it was her ambition to write "fun" sports stories, he summarily fired...
TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Dead End on Flugel Street." Attorney O'Brien defends Burlesque Comedian Boozey Bailey (Milton Berle), accused of murdering his wife...
...week's end doctors said that Ike had suffered no further pains and was in "excellent spirits." When he was not dozing in his oxygen tent, he sat up in bed reading westerns or chatting cheerfully with John, Mamie and his brother Milton about "everything from education to Black Angus cattle." It had been exactly a decade, Eisenhower recalled on Veterans' Day, since he returned to the White House after suffering his first heart attack in Denver...
...Windows. For ten hours, on a sweltering summer day, his Ministers sat in their shirtsleeves and waited, talking, doodling, wandering about, leaning out of the windows of their second-story meeting room in Salisbury's Milton Building. To a man, they felt that Wilson had never intended to compromise, and had only been leading them on. His message was finally delivered by British High Commissioner John Baines Johnston, who spent 50 minutes alone with Smith and left grim-faced...
...rebel government seemed happy enough. Before their first independence Cabinet meeting, Smith and his ministers met on the steps of the Milton Building, slapped each other merrily on the back, traded jokes and snapped pictures of each other. When someone handed Smith half a bottle of South African champagne, he accepted it gratefully. "Now we are launched," he said...