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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...husband George Flores, a run-of-the-mill club fighter, died in September 1951, four days after he was knocked out by Middleweight Roger Donoghue. New York State Athletic Commission doctors, argued Mrs. Flores, were negligent in permitting her husband to put on the gloves with Donoghue. In two previous fights, both within five weeks of the fatal bout, George Flores had been cruelly beaten, defeated by technical knockouts; the second time Donoghue himself had handed out the beating...
During the first period, the Yardling passing and shooting were so ineffective that the Walpole goalie had to make only three saves. During the second period, however, the sextet's teamwork, which had carried it to four previous wins, began to show. Besides the four goals which he allowed, the Walpole goalie was forced to make 15 saves, one more than Dick Cleary, the Crimson, goalie, made during the entire game...
...Said the editor of Burke's Peerage: "It really shakes me. A most unfortunate innovation-something -which may result in peers becoming confused wuh American band leaders like Duke Ellington an Count Basic." Nevertheless, there have been previous one-name earldoms: Earl Jowitt, Earl Haig. Attlee's son and heir will be Viscount Prestwood of Walthamstow (Attlee's constituency since...
...hours after the polls closed, Labor Leader Herbert Evatt sourly acknowledged defeat: "The government's plan to sneak back into power apparently succeeded . . ." Actually, rather than sneaking back, Prime Minister Robert Menzies' Liberal-Country Party coalition won a House of Representatives majority twice as large as its previous...
...gift will be used immediately by the Divinity School to increase faculty salaries. Previous donations, however, have gone to expansion of the faculty and the student body...