Word: paul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Watertown, N.Y. There his father, the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles, pastor of the Watertown Presbyterian Church, brought him up to learn long passages from the Bible by heart, to revel in family choruses of Onward, Christian Soldiers and Work, for the Night Is Coming. His boyhood heroes were Paul Revere and John Paul Jones, and his favorite authors were G. A. Henty (Among Malay Pirates; Redskins and Colonists) and Charles Carleton Coffin (The Boys...
...Director J. W. Brinson Jr. were questioned about an apparent $4,650 overcharge on the state purchase of gardening machinery. Jones got to Jury Foreman Edward Westlake, 39, and proposed a $100,000 payment for hamstringing that and other investigations. Westlake refused, reported the offer to State Solicitor General Paul Webb. At Webb's urging, Westlake got in touch with Jones again, hinted at a change of heart. Meeting at an Atlanta tree nursery, the two agreed on a $10,000 price tag on the single charge against Jones...
...clamoring for major league franchises, declared they would "favorably consider" a third major league composed of "an acceptable group of eight clubs." Said Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick: "I firmly believe we will have a third league within five years." Likely applicants: New York, Buffalo, Dallas-Fort Worth, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle, Mexico City, Montreal, Toronto...
...arms of her redbrick-Irish boyfriend (Brian Keith) and soon finds herself with child. She also finds herself without a husband: he smashes up his car and is killed. Coldly refusing to marry the man she really loves, she informs him that she is going to raise his son (Paul Newman) as though he were her husband's. "I want him to have the right chances...
...EMPIRE CITY (618 pp.)-Paul Goodman-Bobbs-Merrill...