Word: pol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musicians played those old Japanese airs, Haydn's 17th Symphony and selections from The Barber of Seville, and gifts were exchanged all around (including a stole and purse for Crown Prince Akihito's bride-to-be, who ' was barred by Japanese protocol from attending). Amiable Old Pol Garcia soon had the shy Emperor beaming...
Because of heavy medical bills during the last years of longtime Boston Pol James Michael Curley, his family announced, there was not enough left in the estate to carry out all his bequests...
...Call the Tune? On the way to visit Nkrumah, Touré had paid a call on Liberia's three-term President William V. S. Tubman, hoping to get Liberia's support. But that old pol was not eager to join such vigorous upstarts. He called federation "unrealistic and Utopian." The leaders of the British colony of Nigeria, one of the richest and largest (pop. 35 million) territories on the Guinea coast, make no secret of their irritation at Nkrumah's ambitions. "Nkrumah." Federal Prime Minister Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa said recently, "cannot expect the rest of Africa...
...Last Hurrah. Spencer Tracy, who can also be seen fishing in cinematically troubled waters in The Old Man and the Sea, is far more at home playing a curly-haired, Curley-like Irish machine pol. The climax conies in a death scene that should wring tears from an Ulsterman...
...into the open last week when Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams' 15-year-old daughter Nancy penned for her school paper the hot scoop on why her daddy always wears a bow tie: Soapy is sloppy with soup. At one dinner with the late Governor Frank Murphy, young Pol Williams eased himself into a dining-room chair, sloshed his four-in-hand in the mushroom soup, stood up, dripped more soup down his shirt front. Mother Williams rushed for cleaning gear, allowed the rolls to burn in the confusion, choking the guests with kitchen smoke. But the evening...