Word: p
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient, arched glass showcases and shelves provided hominy grits, black-eyed peas, meats, light bulbs, soft drinks, laundry soap, fruit-jar caps, boxes of W. E. Garrett & Sons Sweet Mild Snuff, Ramon's Pink Pills, leaf twist tobacco, spools of J. & P. Coats thread and a hundred other items. As America's citizens gossiped around the four-foot, coal-fired iron stove, the talk was full of Christmas doings...
...Navy selection board for promotion to rear admiral. Then, mysteriously, the board was reconvened and ordered to do its work over again. When it had finished that time, Burke's name was not on the list. It had been replaced by the name of Captain Richard P. Glass, Navy Secretary Francis Matthews' 51-year-old aide, who would be retired from service if he were passed over for promotion...
...night last week, 900 citizens jammed into the high-school gymnasium. There, over a $6 roast beef dinner, they listened to some famed Texans (including U.S. Senators Tom Connally and Lyndon Johnson) praise a fellow Texan in terms extravagant even for the Lone Star State. Said ex-Governor William P. Hobby: "He is the kingfish of free enterprise." Added Governor Allan Shivers: "He is Mister East Texas...
...Varsity summary: G F P Rockwell, rf 8 10 26 Stevenson 0 1 1 Murphy, lf 3 0 6 Cohodes 0 0 0 Stiles 0 0 0 Smith, c 5 3 13 Prior 2 2 6 Crosby, rg 0 0 0 Gabler 0 1 1 Hickey, lg 0 0 0 Covey...
...School Forum speakers next semester will include Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Paul Blanshard, Anthony P. Nugent, Jr. '47 3L, president of the Forum, announced last night...