Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Harbor, the Army's senior cavalryman, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger, 62, retiring as commander of the First Army, reviewed his last honor guard, enjoyed a ticker parade up Broadway to a City Hall reception, then headed west for a family Christmas with his son at Fort Sam Houston, where the general first reported for duty with the old 3rd Cavalry in August...
...stock-swap deal, National agreed to buy a smaller rival named Cans, Inc. so that it could get Cans, Inc.'s founder and president, Robert Sam Solinsky, 58. When the deal goes through this week (stockholders' approval seems assured), Solinsky will become president of National, replacing C. L. (for Charles Lewis) Thompson, 65, who stays on as chairman. A bustling go-getter, Solinsky should be right at home in his new job. A onetime executive at giant Continental Can, he was assistant vice president of National in 1939, when he quit to form his own company...
...third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. He settled instead for a professional football contract with the Washington Redskins. Owner George Preston Marshall introduced his new star to reporters by dressing him up in a cowboy outfit, from Stetson to high-heeled boots. Taciturn Sam answered questions in monosyllables. His most notable remark: "Mah feet hurt...
...passing arm do the talking for him. Year after year his slingshot passes-bullet "buttonhooks" or pinpointed "floaters"-found their mark on the field and in the National Football League record books. He picked up such nicknames as the "Redskin Rifle," the "Sweetwater Stringbean," and, naturally, "Slingin' Sam." And in the rough & tumble N.F.L., sinewy Sam Baugh, the kid who was once considered too fragile for college football, never once had a serious injury, never broke a bone...
Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...