Word: neale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edward Asbury O'Neal, 82, onetime (1931-47) president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, influential voice in the shaping of New Deal farm policies, key figure (with Henry A. Wallace) in the passage of the first Agriculture Adjustment Act and the subsequent Soil Conservation Act; in Florence, Ala. O'Neal watched with satisfaction his federation's membership grow from 276,000 to 1,275,000 during his tenure as president, once said of farm production: "We should figure out our future on the basis of human needs-of goods and service...
Tending the Crimson goal will be Bill Henderson. Captain Bob Anderson and John Eaton will play defense, with Stu Forbes at center. At wings will be Crocker Snow and the Yardlings' high scorer Neal Johnson...
...sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered her face with cold cream, put her hair in "irons" and her head in a beauty-lift "hammock." For a long, gentle interlude, the gentleman turned to his sexy-voiced dress designer, Patricia Neal, who was having her own problems with Robert Alda, a rapacious playboy known as "the Jewish Errol Flynn." Over Pat's stingers, Walter grunted and groaned about the young generation, whose books are all titled Kiss Me Deadly, Kill Me Lovely or Love Me Dreadful, or lamented mating...
...When he was not stopping punches with his face, former Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer was forced to use every weapon he had as he tried to fight his way past Las Vegas' Neal Rivers for another crack at the title. For ten rounds he threw fists, forehead and shoulders with fierce abandon, and for ten rounds he caught as much as he threw. The verdict: a split decision for Fullmer. The surgical count: 16 stitches for Fullmer, only six for Rivers...
...Died. Neal Ball, 76, jovial onetime shortstop for the Cleveland Naps (later the Indians), first major leaguer to stage an unassisted triple play; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. On July 9, 1909, with visiting Red Sox runners on first and second, Ball made a diving catch of a line drive for one out, fell on second for two, recovered and tagged the first-base runner for three...