Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months afterward, Cannon seemed to accept the defeat. Then, late last April, the name of State Representative Bedford Black vanished from the news columns of the Kannapolis daily Independent (circ. 10,950). Cannon owns the Independent building and the ground it stands on, and his son-in-law owns a controlling interest in the paper...
...most serious question: had there been an off-to-Buffalo shuffle with A.G.V.A. sick and relief funds? Member contributions are recorded only by number, not by name, so that only Bright and his staff can decipher who deserves what. In addition, a separate corporation called the A.G.V.A. Foundation, headed by busy Jackie Bright, last year bought 62 acres of land in the Catskills, plus assorted buildings, announced that this was the new retreat for retired A.G.V.A. members. So far no A.G.V.A. member has retired there. Asked one critic: "What kind of a home is it up there in the hills...
Meanwhile, keeping an agreement with the French government, Writer-Producer-Director Stone had removed the name Ile de France from every part of the ship, repainted the name Olympus on lifeboats, life rings, prow and stern. Promptly the Greek Line, which has a ship called Olympia, threatened suit. More paint. This week, if all goes according to schedule the Ile de France, her three forward compartments flooded with 7,000 tons of Osaka Bay, will aim her four great screws and the new name Claridon into the wide, wide lenses...
...with a pale, finely chiseled face, a long nose and a pointed beard. On his way from Paris to Strasbourg, where he planned to settle down and study, he was detoured through Geneva by military operations, intended to stay in the city only overnight. But a red-bearded Protestant named William Farel, who was having his troubles advancing the Reformation in Geneva, had heard of the brilliant Frenchman's arrival and went to him at his inn to beg him to stay. Calvin declined. Farel roared at him: "You are simply following your own wishes, and I declare...
Died. Sax Rohmer (pen name for Arthur Sarsfield Ward), about 76, creator of 20th century English fiction's most durable villain: Fu Manchu; after long illness ; in London. Modeled on a mysterious Chinese Rohmer spotted one night in 1913 in the Limehouse fog, wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his Anglo-Saxon pursuers in and out of 13 books and the most exotic parts of the world, assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly...