Word: racing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate vacancies the Democrats nominated Oren E. Long, 70, a Territorial Senator and onetime Territorial Governor, and Territorial Senator Frank Fasi, 38, who upset William H. Heen, venerable 76-year-old Territorial ex-Senator, who had come out of retirement to make the race. The Republicans nominated Businessman Hiram L. Fong, 52, and Territorial Senator Wilfred Tsukiyama...
...shells streaking away from their stake boats, no one paid much attention to the University of Wisconsin's crew, which had not even been good enough to qualify for the finals of the Eastern sprint championships last month, had, in fact, wound up dead last in the consolation race...
...coaches, whose Navy crews dominated the I.R.A. in 1952, 1953 and 1954. Developer of countless great oarsmen and rowing coaches in a 37-year career, Callow was forced to step down from active coaching a month ago because of failing health and eyesight. But at the finish of the race last week, Rusty Callow could feel satisfied. His Navy crew, only a mediocre outfit this season but revamped for the I.R.A., made a gallant closing spurt, finished a strong third, just a deck length back of Syracuse...
...toppled the corrupt Pendergast machine, sent Boss Tom Pendergast to jail for income tax evasion; in Kansas City, Mo. Milligan struck the entrenched machine at its vitals: the ballot box. He convicted 259 Pendergast lackeys for fraud in the 1936 election alone. He later lost (1940) a bitter primary race for U.S. Senator to Pendergast Protege Harry Truman, who as Vice President in 1945 closed Milligan's career-by blocking his reappointment...
...should be a shocker of an ending. The combo folded, the narrator recalls, after its thunderous Negro drummer died of too many pep pills and too much whisky. Slowly, 25 years later, the sax player is made aware of a horrifying truth: one of the white bandsmen, obsessed with race hatred, deliberately fed the ailing Negro the poison that would kill...