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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third from the Right. Last week, a quarter-century later, Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham, although she long ago refused the titled suitor, found herself still in Spot No. 3. Just to the right of her in the new and different kind of chorus line stood, in order of rank, Louella O. ("Lolly") Parsons, queen of Hollywood gossipists, and Hedda Hopper, undisputed heiress apparent to Lolly-until Sheilah came along to contest the succession...
...Kentuck again as the number one college basketball team in the nation for 1952, just as it was in 1949 and 1951. For the third time in four years, Kentucky's Wildcats won the top rank in the final Associated Press ranking poll of the 1951-1952 season...
...would have it, they frightened the French too-right back across the Pyrenees, after one of the most brilliant campaigns of modern times. Not long afterward, Napoleon was sent packing for good. General Wellesley got his dukedom and his niche in history. The rank & file, according to a custom old when Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, got their prize money-and a muster into oblivion. Yet destiny for once had preserved a rich archive of the forgotten...
...Next, Vissering went into direct competition with his rival, Jaccoponi. He set up his own stevedoring company. The nub was 25 resolute anti-Jaccoponi dockers, all of them fast men with a fist or a bale-hook. Under protection of Italian-not American-soldiers, they unloaded two ships. Restless rank & filers in the Red union, with nothing to do but 'watch, began nudging their leaders. Thereupon Jaccoponi, to save his face, put on his businessman's hat, made a deal with Vissering: Jaccoponi would set up a subsidiary to his monopoly to handle the U.S. Army shipping...
...Arthur Rank...