Word: neb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fine Print. In Grand Island, Neb., to show that people don't read what they sign, the Independent circulated a petition asking the city council, among other things, "to hang me by the neck until dead," got 35 signatures...
...winners in order of their total number of votes were as follows: Paul W. Mandel, of New York City and Lowell; Robert P. Hyde, of Belmont and Winthrop; Frederick V. Fortmiller, Omaha, Neb, and Elliot; Douglas M. Fouquet, Bayside, N.Y. and Dunster; Peter B. Taub, Larchmont, N.Y. and Lowell; Alvin Becker of Waltham and Adams; Robert E. Tomasello, of Bemont and Dudley; Richard R. Reynolds, Punxsudawney, Penn, and Leverett; Edmund J. Gilake, Jr. of Medford and Dunster; and James F. Draper, of Groton and Kirkland, Arthur H. Rohn, Villa Park, III, and Dunster, and David Harrison, Lakewood...
Died. Edmund P. Pillsbury, 37, vice president of Pillsbury (flour) Mills, Inc., Alfred D. Lindley, 43, socialite sportsman, and Dexter L. Andrews, 38, all Minneapolis business leaders; in the crash of a light plane piloted by Pillsbury; near Paxton, Neb...
...belonged to Atlanta's new librarian. Two years ago, when Atlantans voted 1,700,000 to expand their 48-year-old Carnegie Library and its string of branches, the city gave the top job to fast-moving, chain-smoking John Carl Settlemayer, 38, onetime director of the Lincoln, Neb. library...
...less quipping, but he still managed to make small-type headlines. Samples: OLD PETE, BROKE, IN VET HOSPITAL; ALEXANDER COLLAPSES; GROVER ALEXANDER SENT TO BELLEVUE; NECK BROKEN, ALEXANDER WALKS OUT OF HOSPITAL. Last week, at 63, Old Pete's troubles came to an end. Back in St. Paul, Neb., his old home town, he died peacefully in his sleep. Baseball fans, remembering the one-foot difference between hero and bum, remembered the record of one of baseball's greatest pitchers: 373 games won,* 90 by shutout, winning percentage...