Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after he was hired as an office boy (salary: $4 a week), spry Frederick Hudson Ecker, 90, honorary board chairman of the giant ($80 billion in insurance) Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., sat through a dinner in his honor, reminisced to his audience about the company's great past. President for seven years (1929-36) and board chairman for 15 more, Ecker has worked without pay since 1938, is still consulted on big investments-and still shows no signs of retiring...
...been provided by the Crosby lawyers. Worse yet, Dennis, a Catholic, was aware that the first marriage of Pat, a Protestant, was probably valid, and so he could not marry her in his own church. Hiding from the press through it all was Dennis' dad, himself just past the newlywed stage with Cinemorsel Kathy Grant...
...nine men and six women were roughed up enough to require hospital treatment. Boston police blamed Freed and his frenetic fans, but could not prove it, since they nabbed nobody. Freed's defenders pointed out that the Arena area has been the site of frequent muggings in the past; the toughs might simply have used the crowds pouring out of the Arena as a cover...
...hemorrhage," or bleeding inside the skull. But chances are that when Presidents are afflicted with any one of the lesser varieties, such laymen as headline writers will go on calling them "strokes." ¶As of last August, only 42% of all Americans had gone to the dentist in the past three years, reported the U.S. Public Health Service, and only 36% had gone during the preceding year. Of those who did go, most were women who live in cities. Another dentographical statistic: more than 21 million Americans, or 13% of the population, have nary a single natural tooth...
...bill on the ground that fans assume certain risks when they buy their tickets. Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld an award of $3,675 to Mrs. Lee on the ground that the Braves' County Stadium ushers were negligent in their duty to protect spectators. In the past, ball clubs have rarely been held liable for similar injuries, and ball teams in both leagues braced themselves for a flood of claims...