Word: palled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Choral concerts pall easily; a varied program trying to parade through the last five centuries of choral music almost always ends up plodding. It is especially difficult for a concert to offer a fused experience and not just deal out snippets of feeling...
Courthouse v. White House. Carrying out that assignment, O'Brien crossed the nation nine times, traveling 100.000 miles, talking deep into every night, stoking himself with three packs of Pall Malls, a Niagara of black coffee each day. He set up the local organizations, staffed mostly by enthusiastic amateurs in the states where Kennedy had to win presidential primaries to have any real hope for the Democratic nomination. O'Brien could also talk turkey with such patronage-minded politicans as a local West Virginia leader who told him bluntly: "I'm not interested in the White House...
BESTSELLING CIGARETTE is Pall Mall, according to Printers' Ink survey. Pall Mall overtook Camel, which dropped to No. 2. Salem moved up from seventh in 1959 to sixth, Marlboro from tenth to ninth. The 1960 order: Pall Mall, Camel, Winston, Lucky Strike, Kent, Salem, Chesterfield, L & M, Marlboro, Viceroy...
When Congress adjourned without taking action on a bill to grant tax relief to World War I Hero Sergeant Alvin York, 72, a group of Tennessee American Legion posts kicked off a campaign to raise $29,000 to liquidate his longstanding obligation. But back in the hilly hinterlands near Pall Mall, Tenn., York was still muttering about the injustice of it all. Said he, recalling his $150,000 in royalties from a 1941 biographical movie: "When I got that money I paid them half and told 'em the other half was mine...
Died. Vincent Riggio, 82, president from 1946 to 1950 and board chairman the following year of The American Tobacco Co.; of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Born in Sicily, Riggio was a $3-a-week Manhattan pantsmaker at 14, got a job selling Pall Malls in 1905. Possessed of a fluent tongue, an active imagination and a driving manner, Riggio was chosen to introduce Lucky Strikes in 1917, replaced flamboyant George Washington Hill as American Tobacco's president...