Word: parr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ELBERT PARR TUTTLE, 55, Atlanta tax lawyer and post-convention Republican state chairman, to be general counsel (head of the Legal Division) of the Treasury Department. Tuttle's high-domed head and earnest oratory came to the attention of several million U.S. televiewers during last summer's Republican National Convention, when he sparked the Georgia pro-Eisenhower delegation's dramatic and successful fight against the claims of the rival pro-Taft delegation. Tuttle had been in battle before: in World War II, he was an artillery battalion commander in the Pacific. An ex-officer who served under...
Touchy Subject. In Douglasville, Ga., as H. L. Parr started to sketch a picture of the devil his minister had asked him to make for a church meeting, a rip-roaring electric storm broke out, lightning struck a cable post, knocked out Parr's switch box, put out his lights and tore up his water pump...
Mystery Man. The more the Oklahoman and Times dug, the worse it smelled. The Oklahoman's court reporter, Ray Parr, teamed up with Van Dyke and Timesman Henry Burchfiel to sift through a 20-year mountain of records. They soon noticed that a "Ted Smith" had bought much of the tax-sale land, though nobody in town knew any real-estate man named Ted Smith. When the reporters checked up on notaries who had witnessed "Ted Smith's" signature, they flushed a well-to-do printing-company executive named W. C. Bonney. He admitted he had used...
Briskly he passes on to another Ayot tourist attraction, the house of Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII...
...Thomas Parr, a Shropshire lad, who lived, by his own unauthenticated and undocumented account, almost 153 years, was a contemporary of Shakespeare and of Dr. William Harvey. The Anatomical Examination to which TIME refers was Harvey's report of an autopsy performed upon Parr by order of the King, Charles I ... Many books of general reference mention Parr. His outstanding honor in comtemporary literature is his appearance on page one of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake...