Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daytona Beach. Fla., anonymously aided charities with the money left her by her late father, Procter & Gamble Vice President James N. Gamble. A quiet, retiring woman, she owned a 1952 Dodge worth $200, a 1954 Cadillac worth $700, had no more expensive jewelry than a $1,000 diamond ring. Last week a 91-page inventory of her estate, filed in Cincinnati probate court, showed she might well have lived a little more lavishly. The estate, composed mostly of P. & G. stocks and bonds, was valued...
...support from a quartet of ex-champions who testified in Washington. Undefeated Rocky Marciano called it "absolutely essential"; normally closemouthed Joe Louis said it would prevent states like New York, the worst case he could think of, from giving gangsters "a chance to get a hold on boxers"; old Ring Foes Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey agreed that it would help boxing, now "on its last legs." to purge "unsavory" elements...
NONFICTION √ 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (3) √ 3. The New English Bible (2) √ 4. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (4) 5. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (5) 6. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Mauser (10) √ 7. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (7) √ 8. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan 9. The City in History, Mumford (9) 10. Reality in Advertising, Reeves...
Skull-faced Actor Widmark plays a carefree American "adventurer for hire" who is offered $60,000 by the head of an international spy ring. He is to go into Budapest and whisk out a man wanted by the Hungarian government: Walter Rilla, a scholarly, idealistic anti-Communist who smuggles enemies of the state across the border into Austria. The story, filmed in Austria, Switzerland and England, turns on how Widmark finds Rilla while dodging the Hungarian secret police and the Russian army of occupation. Widmark also dallies with Picasso-eyed Sonja Ziemann, who plays Rilla's doughty daughter...
...Midcentury, Dos Passos (5) √7. Winnie Ille Pu, Milne (6) 8. China Court, Godden (8) 9. Hawaii, Michener (7) √10. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward NONFICTION √ 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) √2. The New English Bible (3) √3. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (2) 4. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks (4) 5. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (5) √6. Skyline, Fowler (8) 7. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (6) 8. The City in History, Mumford (7) 9. Reality in Advertising, Reeves 10. Who Killed Society...