Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reapportionment. The issue has become a passion with Ev, who has been trying for nearly a year now to modify the Supreme Court's ruling that both houses of state legislatures must be apportioned solely on the basis of population. In an earlier version, Dirksen's amendment ran into an eight-to-eight deadlock in the Judiciary Committee July 20th. He succeeded in maneuvering around the committee, got a 57 to 39 vote for his bill on the Senate floor-only seven votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority-and came back to the committee with...
...already made something of a name for himself as a ragtime pianist in Europe. Early one morning, after a show at Ciro's in Paris, Ross and some friends set out by car for a tour of the French countryside. As luck would have it, the car ran out of gas alongside a suburban golf course -so Sobel played his first round dressed in tails and patent leather shoes. Within four years he was good enough to attract the attention of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, who was looking for somebody to design him a golf course and teach...
...another. The cops flagged down the Corvair, flashed their warrant and arrested the driver-Gloria Placente, 34, a bewildered blonde housewife headed for the beach. Triumphantly, the cops explained their gimmick: a computer miles away had just squealed that Mrs. Placente had neglected to answer a summons after she ran a red light 16 months...
Comic-Strip Shaw. For 23 years on the Tribune, Cassidy not only criticized the cultural world of Chicago; to a large extent, she ran it. She helped persuade Conductor Fritz Reiner to take over the Chicago Symphony (1953-62), and she helped build up the estimable Chicago Lyric Opera. When she liked something -or someone-she lavished compliments. She was one of the first to praise and promote Tennessee Williams. Reviewing the 1944 world premiere of The Glass Menagerie, she wrote: "It is honest, tender, tough and brilliant...
Died. Wilbur Clark, 56, Las Vegas innkeeper and sometime craps dealer who parlayed tips and gambling earnings into the Green Shack, pioneer Las Vegas gambling house of 1938, and became a full-fledged Nevada nabob in 1950 when he opened his gaudy, $4 million Desert Inn which, increasingly, he ran as a front for a group of sometime Cleveland gamblers; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif...