Word: moss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Utah, Incumbent Republican Senator Arthur V. Watkins, 71, easily won renomination over a political nobody, but now faces double trouble. By starting early, indefatigably stumping the state from one end to the other, Salt Lake County Attorney Frank E. Moss, 47, won the Democratic nomination by an unexpectedly heavy vote (total Democratic vote was 5,000 greater than total Republican). And waiting in the wings until November is ex-Governor J. Bracken Lee. Diehard Republican Lee, running as an independent, is not expected to win -but might siphon off enough Republican votes to let Democrat Moss sneak through...
...graciously consented to be judges (no pay, but free room and board) at the Western Hemisphere's annual summit meeting of beauties-the 37th Miss America contest. The quartet: Book Publisher and TV Paneluminary Bennett (What's My Line?) Cerf, his wife Phyllis, Playwright-Producer-Director Moss Hart and his actress-wife Kitty Carlisle (of TV's To Tell the Truth). The following memorable dialogue took place...
...Miller (real name: Lucille Ann Collier), 35, leggy, Texas-born dancing cinemactress (Kiss Me Kate), and longtime (since 1947) bachelor girl, who once frankly admitted that she was hunting a man, said "it would help if I could find a Texan with a few oil wells"; and William P. Moss Jr., 38, millionaire Texas oilman; both for the second time (his first: Oldtime Cinemoppet Jane Withers); in La Jolla, Calif...
Died. Peter Collins, 26, sports-car racer, one of Britain's three top speed drivers (with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn), winner of the British Grand Prix (1958), the French Grand Prix (1956) and the Belgian Grand Prix (1956); when his Ferrari crashed in the German Grand Prix; near Adanau, Germany...
...Hawthorn's second place gave him six points, and, with a bonus point for turning the fastest lap of the race, a commanding 30-10-23 lead over Moss in the racing world's championship. And with eight points for winning, 26-year-old Peter Collins vaulted over four others to take third place with 13 points, making the world's top three an all-British club...