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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathering of jewelers and curiosity seekers crowded into a San Francisco salesroom, relentlessly bid down a 105-piece collection of gems (estimated value: $250,000) to a paltry $50,000. Previous owner of the baubles: the late France., Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Willson, pudgy nymphet bride at 15 (in 1926) of oddball Moneyman Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, then 51, who six months after their splashy nuptials shed her animal-fancying Daddy in the decade's most untidy divorce...
Yesterday about 50 freshmen reported punctured and mutilated tires on their bicycles. Previous to this, other damages were discovered over the weekend, Toohy stated. In addition, two bicycles have been stolen from the Halls in the Prescott St. area...
...Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Result: next year corn growers will give up a system that paid 75% to 90% of parity if they planted no more than a Government-set limit, turn to a system that sets the props closer to real market value (i.e., 90% of the previous three-year average, but not below 65% of parity) for all the corn they can raise...
...diagnosing his condition before examination, always tell relatives the case is very grave, assume that a fast pulse only means worry over your fee. Last week British physicians were chuckling over dozens of such memories, recalled in Call the Doctor, by Ernest S. Turner, a frequent Punch contributor whose previous social histories have deflated the egos of British reformers, admen and Blimps...
From Amherst coach Richard Wilson comes word that 'things haven't been going too well." The Lord Jeffs are "much weaker than they have been in previous years," he commented mournfully, nothing that his squad was especially hurt by the graduation of Bill Warren...