Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quiet, thoughtful Paul L. (for Linton) Patterson, now 55, was born in Ohio, the son of a Disciples of Christ minister, moved to Oregon in 1900, and left few distinguishing marks along his trail: law school at the University of Oregon, a small-town practice in Hillsboro (pop. 5,142), work with the Boy Scouts, and a back seat in the state senate. Then-with Patterson more as onlooker than participant-things began to happen...
Congress Party leaders dutifully took these proposals home, blandly proposed the merging of Bengal and Bihar (total pop. 65 million), the merging of Bombay state with huge slices of Madhya Pradesh and Hyderabad (approx. pop. 43 million), the merging of Madras with Mysore and Travancore-Cochin (approx. pop. 55 million). Gasped the opposition parties: a plot to hold power through creating a group of superstates...
...slapstick and clowning that has wrecked professional wrestling, the honest amateur variety still has its loyal fans. Probably the No. 1 wrestling town in the U.S. is Bethlehem, Pa. (pop. 66,340), home of Lehigh University. Probably the U.S.'s No. 1 wrestler: National Champion 147-lb. class) Edward ("Ike") Eichelberger, captain of Lehigh's wrestling team...
...France's biggest postwar achievement has been to open vast new areas of the world to the 20th century. Since 1945, Air France has laid out a network of 111 stops in West Africa, Equatorial Africa and Madagascar. Long-isolated areas such as Mauritania (pop. 793 whites, 545,000 natives), Lake Chad, the Cameroons, are now within 18 hours of Paris and do a fast-growing business in pineapples, cotton and beef, all flown out by Air France...
...entertainment trade sheet Variety each week decrees which pop songs are hits on the basis of surveys and polls. Last week it published its 4 Ib. 1½ oz., 514-page 50th anniversary number, and tried something harder: picking the top hits of the half century. The list, chosen by Columnist Jim Walsh on the basis of originality, catchiness or sales figures: In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, School Days, Casey Jones, Down by the Old Mill Stream, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Alexander's Ragtime Band, I Want a Girl, Waiting for the Robert...