Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted office for himself. In 1936, he ran for the California state assembly-the first of more than a dozen public offices he has sought and the first of seven he has won. He was swept into office on the strength of Franklin Roosevelt's landslide win over Republican Alf Landon. A few days after winning re-election in 1938, Sam met blonde, attractive Betty Hensel in a post office, married her within two weeks. (They have one son, William, 20, a U.C.L.A. student and lead guitarist in a shaggy-haired group called the Ryot.) The following year, after...
Never a Cipher. In the halcyon 1930s, Geoffrey Parsons was the city's most influential editorial writer; Stanley Woodward ran the best sports page in the business. The city editor was that celebrated Texan Stanley Walker, whom many consider the alltime champion in that trade. Walker issued just two ukases: "Do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade." But he could make some pointed suggestions. A correspondent whose copy lacked enough punctuation once received a full typed page of commas. And in his book, City Editor, Walker wrote, "Pick adjectives as you would pick a diamond...
...veteran on the team was Dennis ("The Menace") Ralston, 24, who ranks No. 1 in the U.S. and plays like it when he can keep a lid on his temper. Last week the only menacing thing about Dennis was his game. Mixing riflelike base-line shots with lobs, he ran Mexico's Star Rafael Osuna, 27, into the ground with a four-set victory...
...legs like fuzzy yellow pencils. They meet after he answers her ad in a lonely-hearts column, and in this sad, hilarious, faultless little film by Italy's Antonio Pietrangeli, they begin and end in a single day the least hopeful attempt at pairing since the dish ran away with the spoon...
...seemed anything but superfluous to British Novelist Charity Blackstock (Mr. Christopoulos, Monkey on a Chain). Working through a British Jewish relief agency, Mrs. Blackstock brought about 500 Jewish adolescents to England, installed them for brief holidays in Jewish homes. She enjoyed her work so much that when agency funds ran out after five years, she went to France to work in Jewish orphanages there...