Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flourish of ceremony and sentiment, Britain's 41st Parliament-last week held its final session. Wigged and white-ruffled, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod summoned M.P.s to hear Queen Elizabeth's dissolution speech. Less than an hour later, the Queen's writs went out to 630 parliamentary constituencies, and Britain's 1959 election campaign was officially under...
...Manhattan to see his grandchildren, Harry S. Truman took note of the Umbrella Man, Dracula, and the rest of New York's juvenile delinquents, thought he knew the real trouble. "Spare the rod and spoil the child is what we've been doing for two generations," said old-fashioned Harry. "The peachtree switch and mother's slipper are the best things in the world to make a kid behave." Had he felt either? Grinned Truman: "Both...
...Olds version, like the Buick show, hollers sell from introduction to finale. Both this year and last, its choreography was handled by Carol (Pajama Game) Haney; this year, as last, its stars are Bill (Me and Juliet) Hayes and Florence (Fanny) Henderson. It races along like a hot rod, but every other line and every song is part of the sales spiel. The title: Got Rhythm. The message: "I got beauty! I got styling! I got sweet lines." "The car," intones D. P. Brother ad agency Vice President Frank Egan, "is, of course, the real star of the show...
...always been speed for Mickey Thompson, 30. who last week went to the annual Bonneville speed trials on the salt flats of Utah with Challenger I, the flashiest hot-rod of them all. To get ready for his run, Thompson quit his job as a pressman for the Los Angeles Times seven months ago, spent up to 20 hours a day -and most of his savings-working with an engineering friend named Fritz Voigt on the long (20 ft.), low (30 in. at the hood) monster...
...newest shamus in the club collects his pay as suavely as any, is just as deadly with rod and dukes. This time he and his blueblooded staff (Joanna Barnes) pull a semilegal caper, conning...