Word: moss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Motorola TV Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Arnold Moss in The Last Days of Hitler...
Last week, thanks to the enterprise of two bustling Ohio businessmen, the monastery was finally put together on U.S. soil. In North Miami Beach, Fla., workmen fitted the last of the 35,000 stones in place, and the two businessmen, E. Raymond Moss and William S. Edgemon of Cincinnati, got ready to open the monastery to sightseers. Moss and Edgemon had bought the stones at a bargain after Hearst's death in 1951, and packed them off to Florida. In the summer of 1952, a small army of architects, masons and other workmen started the laborious job of unpacking...
...room mansion had been vacant for 20 years. The door was locked when he got there. Moss and mildew flourished on the paneled walls. Water seeping from a blocked gutter had rotted the floors. Fungus grew on ancient banisters. Ivy, snaking through broken windowpanes, writhed in green profusion. Thousands of dead bees littered every corner. Lady Dunbar, erstwhile tidy Maryland housewife, held up a picture frame from which the canvas had long since rotted. "A portrait," she remarked wryly, peering through it, "of the wife of the present baronet...
Prompt Arrest. Despite the restraining efforts of priests and organizers, the threat of violence hung like Spanish moss over the bayous. In Terrebonne Parish, swamp-fire violence flared briefly when four men ambushed and shot three Negro sugar-mill workers, wounding them slightly. The four were promptly arrested. Said Governor Robert F. Kennon: "I feel it is my duty to publicly state that such acts will not be tolerated." Said Jesuit Father L. J. Twomey of New Orleans' Loyola University: "The workers are apparently willing to take whatever risks are involved to free, if not themselves, at least their...
...endorsed incumbent Chester A. Higley thinks there would be a change in Council personnel if PR is thrown out. "I don't think there would be as much say for minority groups; things would be very much one-sided. Primaries make for machine politics. We'd have the same moss as they have in Boston." Higley is a good bet for mayor if the CCA maintains its Council majority--and it should...