Word: morrison
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Three Yale performers--captain John Blake, Tommy Carroll, and John Morrison--crossed the finish line arm-in-arm to tie for second in 25:02, 16 seconds behind the younger Kingston. Tom Cathcart followed soon after in fifth position, and Tom Cox rounded out the Eli scoring with a 12th-place effort...
Yale poses an impressive challenge, however. The Bulldogs' two front-runners, John Blake and the great Tommy Carroll, have both run better times than Mullin. These two have accounted for the undefeated Elis' victory margins most of the season, although John Morrison, Tom Cathcart, and Bill Cherryholmes have done well also...
Britain's 'Erb (for Herbert) Morrison, 71, could "not sleep for worrying," finally decided not to stand for Parliament after 27 years in the House of Commons. But Socialist Morrison would not have to leave Westminster after all. As Parliament dissolved, Queen Elizabeth's dissolution honors list awarded a lifetime peerage to the London bobby's son who became wartime Home Secretary, later Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in the postwar Labor government. The new lord had no idea what new name he would choose. "I'll still be the same Herbie Morrison...
When British Socialists in 1955 picked Hugh Gaitskell, now 53, to succeed the retiring Clement Attlee as head of the party, they applauded, but they did not cheer. The sad fact was that the longtime heir apparent, chirpy Herbert Morrison, was too old to take over. And the idol of the left, Aneurin Bevan, seemed too hotheaded. A compromise choice, Gaitskell found himself heading a party whose old-time religion had lost much of its appeal and whose leaders were perpetually torn between accommodating the conservative labor unions and the radical left wing while formulating a policy that would appeal...
...coffee. ¶ Raging at the wholesale desertion of his followers ("They're takin' a runout powder!"), Long began firing dozens of the unfaithful with the speed of a Cuban revolutionary tribunal. His worries increased when five other candidates, led by New Orleans' able Mayor deLesseps Morrison, announced their willingness to run for Governor against him. Meanwhile, federal Internal Revenue agents were winding up a full-scale investigation of his financial affairs, which may roil Ole Earl's troubled waters. ¶ Bedeviled by what one of his psychiatrists called "the pressures of being the childless branch...