Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everett has been playing bridge for six years and last year was co-winner of the University Pair Bridge Championship. He is past President of the Bridge Club...
What, asked a Manhattan newshawk, should one wear at the wedding? "Well, sir," replied the ex-President of the U.S., "you wear the best pair of pants you've got, and just so long as you're covered up you'll be in style!" Thus, with the earthy touch that is his trademark, Harry Truman set a folksy sartorial tone for the marriage of his daughter Margaret to the New York Times's suave Foreign Deskman E. (for Elbert) Clifton Daniel Jr., 43, a silvery-topped North Carolinian who picked up a faint British accent during...
...sloppy caricature of the man who had once been the greatest heavyweight fist fighter in the world, Joe Louis pulled on a pair of red bathing trunks and tangled with Cowboy Rocky Lee in a professional wrestling match at Washington's Uline Arena. Broke, in hock to the Government for more than $1,200,000 in back taxes, Joe earned about $1,500 by belting the Cowboy out of the ring with a short jab to the belly. "It's an honest living," was the best he could say of his new occupation...
...mile spiderweb of underground tunnels fanning out through five mines. Sudbury is to nickel what Minnesota's Mesabi Range is to iron, at one time supplied more than 80% of the free world's nickel. But the credit for making it pay off goes to a pair of hardheaded metalmen with the know-how and vision to turn nickel into one of the world's most important minerals: Inco's onetime President and Chairman Robert Crooks Stanley, who died in 1951, and present Board Chair man Dr. John Thompson, 75, a Columbia School of Mines Ph.D...
...pair develops a quick sense of mission-to unite Britain. Novelist Treece supplies Artos with two Guineveres to Malory's one (but uses the Welsh, Gwenhwyfar). The first Gwenhwyfar is a flaxen haired homebody, his half sister as well as mother of his child. The second is a kind of dusky call girl from Byzantium, a Gwenhwyfar from home. Artos makes her amorous acquaintance in a shivery session atop one of the ancient slabs at Stonehenge. He takes her to wife, but inevitably the day comes when the Count of Britain must off to the wars to fight...