Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worthington, just north of the Iowa border, his campaign went well. The weather was mostly bright, the small-town audiences attentive, generous (slipping up to $400 a meeting into collection cans labeled "The Ezra Taft Benson Retirement Fund") and unexpectedly large, e.g., Stevenson drew 2,500 in Montevideo (pop...
Like most U.S. cities, Fort Worth (pop. 434,000) suffers downtown indigestion. Its business district, boxed in by railroads and the Trinity River, is fed by freeways that carry motorists into a honeycomb, where parking space is inadequate and traffic motion slows to a crawl...
Bridey Murphy-born A.D. 1798, died 1864-first appeared in print in the fall °f J954, soon after a chance remark by Robert Cast, an attorney of Pueblo (pop. 80,800). Said Cast to his brother-in-law, William J. ("Bark") Barker of the Denver Post's Sunday supplement Empire: "Do you think there might be a story in a guy who has discovered that a woman in Pueblo lived an earlier life in Ireland in the 1800s?" Replied Newsman Barker: "Hell, yes." He wrote the story. Empire ran it in three installments as "The Strange Search...
...selling Canadian youth on the muscle-building virtues of cross-country skiing. Last week, deep in the snow-smothered Laurentians at St. Sauveur, Quebec, about 80 boys from 18 Canadian prep schools turned out for the second annual Jack Rabbit Ski Championship. It was an energetic tribute to "Pop" Johannsen's successful salesmanship...
When his work took him south to the U.S., Pop Johannsen helped lay out trails around Lake Placid; soon his services were in demand wherever a North American ski resort was being laid out. Busy as he was, Johannsen never lost his zest for competition. At 60 he finished second in a 32-mile race from Ste. Agathe to Shawbridge, Que. The next year he led a dozen skiers on a 150-mile trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace...