Word: nine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purchasers leaving the place. Last week officers raided No. 77 and confiscated what they called the "greatest hoard of looted archaeological treasures ever found in Italy." In the old palace, crowded with pressed butterflies and Victorian lamps, they found 15,000 antique items without a single legal permit, including nine showcases stacked with Etruscan vases, cups, coins, marble statuary. Four thousand pieces were rated "important," some priceless...
Showing no signs of his spell in the well (TIME, May 27), towheaded, eight-year-old Benny Hooper of Manorville, N.Y. flew to Minneapolis with his parents and six-year-old sister Wendy for a week's fishing. His hosts: Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman and nine-year-old son Mike, who angled unsuccessfully with Benny in Gull Lake (later, fishing with his father, Benny reeled in a creditable string of bass). Behaving as if he were running for governor himself, Benny paraded with a dairy princess, mugged happily at a press conference, offered the fruit...
...Fixture. Grandfather Lanin started the family in the band business 118 years ago in Europe. Lester's father, also a bandleader, traveled to local weddings and hoedowns around Philadelphia in a creaking wagon, raised a family of nine musicians. Young Lester got an early taste of what society likes to dance to by hanging around the ballroom of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel and listening through the doors. By the early '30s he had heard enough to move to New York and start out on his own. During the war he piped for charity and service balls...
...withering glance at a cameraman whose lenses were not quite up to Paar, he smirked: "I have no makeup on my belt buckle tonight." And when one show became a shambles, he ad-libbed: "Friends, aren't you glad you tuned in; we've been rehearsing for nine minutes." Some of Paar's gentle mockery was a replay of old summer material, e.g., his radio-announcer bloopers ("We have just the furniture to seat your nudes"), and reliable chestnuts like "Bring something round-we'll have a ball." But Paar's low-toned impudence...
...prayed 131 delegates, consultants and guests of the World Council of Churches' Central Committee at the close of its annual meeting in New Haven, Conn. During the nine-day meeting, the committee...