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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Sunday night, driving back from Scranton, Pa., it was my bad luck to be caught in a crawling, honking, bumper-to-bumper traffic snarl, and I was reminded again of one of the most famous stories ever published in TIME...
...Haverford, Pa., just back with the Wimbledon singles championship, 17-year-old Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly walked off with her third straight Pennsylvania & Eastern States title after losing only eleven games in the entire tournament. Asked about the reported tiff with her coach, Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant, she replied: "I am not mad . . . We had a few words in England over my supposedly sore shoulder that never really bothered me, but we kissed and made up. Teach made me what I am today. She changed my entire game, and she'll be my coach as long as I play tennis...
...stations last week, only a few days after it began going through its backlog of more than 500 applications (TIME, July 14). Nine TV-less cities got the go-ahead: Portland, Ore., New Bedford and Springfield-Holyoke, Mass., Youngstown, Ohio, Flint, Mich., Bridgeport and New Britain, Conn., York, Pa. and Denver. But Denver is still in for a wrangle. The FCC has ordered hearings for the two rivals who want channel 4-station KMYR, and the new Metropolitan Television Co., of which Bob Hope is a major stockholder...
This week Jarrell gave the company another hearty boost. Old Republic made a deal with Hess Bros, of Allentown, Pa. .to offer policies to its customers on all installment buying, among the first such plans in department-store history. The cost: $1 to $3.20 a year for every $100 of installment credit insured. If the insured dies or is injured so he can't pay, Old Republic will. It also plans to start selling similar installment credit-buying policies in stores throughout...
Next day, in Hershey, Pa., after a private hour with Governor John Fine, Taft faced the Pennsylvania delegates, went through the usual question & answer routine. Later, Taft had lunch with Pennsylvania pols and pressmen, at which the minister of Hershey's All Saints' Episcopal Church invoked God's blessings for the President of the U.S. and "Thy servant Robert." Asked again if he hoped to have won over any delegates, Taft said: "I do not expect converts to come up to the altar and confess today...