Word: orlandos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Orlando Pastore, 43, stubby (5 ft. 4 in.) son of an Italian tailor and the first Italo-American ever elected to the Senate. A product of the efficient Rhode Island Democratic machine developed by Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, cocky but cautious John Pastore succeeded McGrath as governor in 1945 when McGrath became U.S. Solicitor General, is now taking over the Senate seat McGrath gave up last year. He once told a group of foreign editors, "Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union and I am the smallest governor"; conscious of his size and his Italian extraction...
...geography. Many vertical flights have been made from White Sands, N.Mex., but not even in the thinly inhabited Southwest is there an area where a rocket can be fired for distance. So last week the Air Force made its first horizontal rocket test from Cocoa, Fla. (east of Orlando), firing a two-stage rocket over the empty Atlantic north of the Bahamas...
Central Florida: Edward, J. Gurney, Jr., LL.B. '38; P.O. Box 3146, Orlando...
According to the handbills passed out at the Old Howard Athenacum this week, the current feature attraction, Miss Rose La Rose, is "the new undisputed queen of burlesque." This may all come as news to such runway veterans as Gypsy Rose Lee, Georgia Sothern, Dardy Orlando, etc., but judging from the crowds winding through Scollay Square, Miss La Rose has exceptional drawing power...
...part. She seems the very best sort of performer -talented, cultured and good-looking-in college dramatics; she plays the whole thing more as a romp than a love story, and does beautifully by the blank verse while skating right over the poetry. William Prince makes a pleasantly lovesick Orlando, Ernest Thesiger a relentlessly melancholy Jaques...