Word: pocatello
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...coincidence that led Harriman to the land served by his family's Union Pacific Railroad. Good railroading makes the Harriman name respected throughout the territory. When Ave landed at Pocatello, Idaho, the Idaho Falls High School band blared out with "I've been workin' on the railroad...
...always play the piano." Jean took the advice, and eight years later was hired by the Met. Once she sang Carmen from the Met stage, but only in a student matinee. She prepped for the real thing in a succession of out-of-town productions, from Munich, Germany to Pocatello, Idaho. At the Met she moved into many of the important second leads that inevitably fall to a contralto's lot. But to get her chance at the role she coveted most, she had to make a big splash overseas...
What Went Wrong? On the day Larry Vicker was stricken, a 13-month-old boy in Pocatello, Idaho got sick too. He had been vaccinated eight days earlier. Also in Pocatello, Susan Pierce, seven, became ill with bulbar polio three days after her inoculation. Within two days she was dead. In Moscow, Idaho, another seven-year-old girl died. A rash of cases was reported, from Napa, Calif, to Chicago...
...Pocatello, even the fans were a breed apart from the usual fight mob. Through most of the bouts, they hunched in their seats, intent and silent as a TV audience. Contestants could be heard coaching their teammates from far back of the ringside: "Use your right, Joe. Keep jabbin'. For God's sake, jab." And when Idaho State's defending champion, Heavyweight Mike McMurtry, was belted glassy-eyed, a spectator's voice sounded clear above the hush: "That may be the best thing ever hit Mike. He's been thinking of turning pro. I hope...
...second wife, Mary Cushing Astor, 47, eldest of the late brain surgeon Harvey Cushing's three beautiful, millions-marrying daughters (her sisters' husbands: CBS Board Chairman William Paley, Manhattan Financier John Hay Whitney) ; on grounds of mental cruelty, after nearly 13 years of marriage, no children; in Pocatello, Idaho...