Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...startled driver, as Estes said: "I'm Estes Kefauver. I hope you will vote for me." In Richmond, Kefauver. who in the past has been photographed riding a pogo stick, eating raw meat and driving a horse and wagon, was snapped climbing through the ropes into a boxing ring. After a day with her candidate, California's Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Shirpser cracked: "When I got home that night I shook hands with my mother...
...another letter to the editor, Ring Lardner Jr.. one of the "Hollywood Ten." wondered whether the kind of one-man worship so deplorable in Stalin's case might not have influenced the "rather maudlin testaments to William Z. Foster on his recent birthday." In the same sentence, evidently feeling no inconsistency. Lardner described U.S. Communist Boss Foster as "America's outstanding working-class leader...
...went off to World War II, fought across The Netherlands, returned to Europe after the war as a military government clerk in Wiesbaden. On a trip home in 1949 McLane first ran afoul of the law. U.S. customs officials arrested him in Boston for bringing in an undeclared diamond ring, got him convicted in Federal Court and fined $500. ; Back in Europe that year McLane took leave from his military government post to visit wartime Dutch friends who ran a wholesale food business, got the idea that I he could do business with the Dutch. As his friends' agent...
...headliner in 1951 when she slashed her wrists and scared everybody by threatening a nosedive from the Manhattan apartment of Showman Billy Rose, clucked joyously of spring wedding bells for her and Billy, 56. Thrice-wed Comic George Jessel, 57, warily croaked that he has "an affectionate little ring" for unstarred Starlet Joan Tyler's engagement finger. Quipped Georgie: "It's not modern to say one is engaged...
...pair of red bathing trunks and tangled with Cowboy Rocky Lee in a professional wrestling match at Washington's Uline Arena. Broke, in hock to the Government for more than $1,200,000 in back taxes, Joe earned about $1,500 by belting the Cowboy out of the ring with a short jab to the belly. "It's an honest living," was the best he could say of his new occupation, "and it's not stealing...