Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instantly the denizens of Denison (pop. 19,984) leaped into a bipartisan fury, charging that Ike indeed was born in Denison and was so registered in the county records. Not so reckoned one Paul Bunting of Tyler (pop. 51,540): Ike's father bought a home in Tyler when Ike was 11 months old, and if it is true, as Ike's mother has said, that she "carried" Ike in Tyler, why then he "might" have been born there. From a rancher came a letter insisting that Ike came from Commerce, Texas (pop. 6,200). Then the word...
...Well, say hello to Pop...
...greatest variations between the sexes are caused by the soaring rates among men aged 45 to 64. These are the main findings of a study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service (among whites) for the years 1949-51. State-by-state rates (per 100,000 pop.) for the 45-64 age group...
Eastbourne (pop. 58,000), where geraniums hang from lampposts, is Britain's most genteel seaside resort and a mecca for wealthy widows who await death in its pleasant Victorian surroundings. For years the teacups buzzed with talk of a local doctor with a large, loyal practice, who doted on his aged patients. He met them at the station after their visits to London, took them for drives in the country, rushed to the bedside at any hour with soothing words...
...month before this book's publication, Boston papers broke into a rash of headlines: SPICY BOOK HAS NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN AGOG. The town: Gilmanton (pop. 750). The book's author: Novelist Grace Metalious, 32, plump, ponytailed, blue-jeaned wife of the principal of Gilmanton's grammar school. The school board had not renewed George Metalious' contract, but the decision was taken, said the board convincingly, before anyone knew what was in the book. Still, Grace remarked grandly to reporters: "I knew this would happen. Everybody who lives in a small town knows what's going...