Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Experience Wanted. In Brisbane. Australia, the Courier-Mail ran a classified ad: "Young lady wanted, drive car for young gent, license suspended. City, country. Expenses, small wage. Entails night driving. Urgent...
...Governor, Harry Lee Waterfield, 48, tall, shy native of Tobacco (pop. 50) and publisher of the Hickman County Gazette. In the state capital at Frankfort, Waterfield had learned fast from a master teacher, joined Chandler in ownership of the new Indian Hills subdivision, to which their highway department conveniently ran a state road. Aside from fighting down the scandals, Waterfield's toughest campaign job is to shake loose from the increasingly unpopular Happy and still get the nomination...
Last week Galveston went to the polls, cast its vote in favor of the bad old days. In again as mayor, with a 651-vote plurality: beefy, convivial Herbie Cartwright, 44, who did nothing to contradict the quietly spread word that vice might be revived again. Clough, 68, who ran a poor third in the four-way race, was rebuffed but undaunted. Said he: "I am going to sit on the sidelines and watch the people suffer for their mistake. May God have mercy on Galveston...
...settlers boycotted the local celebration almost to a man, gave vent to their anger at De Gaulle by jeering a column of weary soldiers returning from a long search in the hills for the kidnapers. And in Algiers, a mob of 500 students shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" ran afoul of truncheon-swinging police. "Unprovoked police brutality," snapped bearded Pierre Lagaillarde, who led the storming of the Government General Building a year ago. "There were no seditious remarks." But what about the cry of "De Gaulle to the gallows?" a reporter asked. "Its meaning may be seditious," replied Lagaillarde...
...years ago Harvard lost a president, and the CRIMSON invited the nation's cartoonists to speculate on his successor. The results ran in the CRIMSON in the spring of 1953, and were reprinted in LIFE...