Word: ran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of auxiliary bishops had risen from one to nine; the number of elementary and high schools had increased from 307 to 412; tireless Fund Raiser Spellman has chalked up $41,322,074 through his annual fund appeal for Catholic Charities. Born in Whitman, Mass., moonfaced, articulate Frank Spellman ran errands for his father's grocery, played sandlot baseball, boxed in a village barn, became an altar boy at the local church. After graduating from Fordham University ('11), he studied for the priesthood at Rome's North American College. He served in the Boston archdiocese before...
...with a teary Tenderly that touched every expatriate-loving heart (fee: $50-$80). Pretty Roslyn Rensch, harpist ("a program of rare charm and beauty for discriminating audiences"), strummed out Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms and Around the World in 80 Days. She was fine until she ran into some trouble on about the 76th day, but her pluck won nice applause...
Hazel-eyed Phil Ford was no novice at the entertainment game either. When he was a kid around Alameda, Calif., his aunt ran a dancing school, and the Depression saw him doing soft-shoe routines at small theaters to help buy the family groceries. World War II dumped him into the 84th Division, where the commanding general, Alexander Boiling, used to join Sergeant Ford in little skits. Chances are they also burdened Phil with his present style of humor. Sample...
...Percy started climbing to that chair almost from the time he learned to walk. Son of the Bell & Howell office manager, he began selling magazines at the age of five, at New Trier high school he held four jobs at once. At the University of Chicago ('41), he ran a business that grossed $150,000 a year selling supplies to fraternities, and thus was, recalls former Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins, the richest kid who ever worked his way through college...
Saturday's trouble all started in the bottom half of the first when Cornell moundsman Larry Fuller hit Chet Boulris square on his batting helmet. This action aggravated Boulris who started for Fuller but then proceeded to first base. Feelings still ran high, resulting in a physical exchange between Boulris and Big Red first sacker Ron Ivkovich...