Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of this could be used as evidence that he wanted to be President. But it was fascinatingly apparent that if he did want to be, he was saying just the things which a more professional politician should be saying, nine months before convention time...
...tried out some static, Moscow style. Sixteen Poles were convicted of spying for "a foreign government." One of the charges was that they had supplied ex-Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane with material for his article "How Russia Rules Poland," which appeared in LIFE, July 14.* The sentence: death for nine, long imprisonment for seven...
...King spent an hour and a half at "Woodside," the twelve-acre estate on Spring Street where he lived for nine years. The big, yellow brick house is now owned by the W. L. Mackenzie King Woodside Foundation, which hopes some day to make it a national shrine. Meantime it is rented to Polish-born Tony Kielbasa, a tanner. Mr. King pointed to the spot where he and his brother had once pitched their tent and to a bank that had once been covered with violets. He talked of his mother's bed of lilies-of-the-valley...
...sleep. He likes neither music nor dancing. "You know," he says, "colored people do not like music and dancing any better than white people . . . the white people just think they do." At home, he carefully takes his vitamin pills, spends a lot of time baby-sitting with his nine-month-old son, and according to his wife (whom he met at U.C.L.A.), always has his face buried in a paper. Like most ballplayers, he soaks up every word in every newspaper in town that concerns him and his team. His reader reaction: "Some reporters write nice things about...
...made his long awaited return from war service to Soldiers Field on a similar mission to find a maze of unfamiliar talent interspersed with a smattering of 1942 players and members of informal wartime squads, and the opening game scarcely a month away. The resulting seven wins out of nine after such a precarious start were a pleasant surprise...