Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Samuel McPherson ("Golf Bag") Hunt, 55, legendary disciplinarian for Al Capone, who scorned the traditional violin case, jolted fashion-conscious Chicago colleagues by carrying his submachine gun where his mashie should have been (and reputedly dubbed his first shot, whose target survived to be known as "Sam Hunt's Hole in One"), was arrested for many Chicago murders, convicted for none during Prohibition years and the decade following, later became the man to see in Chicago bookmaking; of heart disease and pneumonia; in Schenectady...
Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman. As soon as Truman arrived in Chicago, such worthies as Indiana's Frank McKinney and New York's Judge Samuel Rosenman assured him that Ave had lined up 450 or more first-ballot votes. They reasoned that such favorite sons as Ohio's Frank Lausche, Michigan's G. Mennen Williams and New Jersey's Robert Meyner would hold their delegations for themselves, at the first sign of firm opposition to Stevenson. They reported that Stevenson's following...
...Boston's Theodore Samuel Williams was still suffering from a painful case of rabbit ears. Booed for muffing an easy fly ball in a game with the Yankees, Outfielder Williams did a slow burn. By the time he made a game-saving catch, even the cheers sounded like jeers to Terrible-Tempered Ted. His neck swelled, his eyes bulged, his blood pressure soared, and he popped off in a reaction which had been puzzling dugout scientists for weeks: turning to the crowd, he began to spit like an alley cat. The Red Sox's General Manager Joe Cronin...
TOLBECKEN (370 pp.)-Samuel Shellabarger-Little, Brown...
Many a professor must have a streak of Alexandre Dumas in him, but most of them would no more expose it than be caught jitterbugging. Samuel Shellabarger, who died in 1954 at 65, had no such qualms. Years as a Princeton English professor and as head of a girls' school failed to dim his passion for writing cloak-and-dagger fiction (Captain from Castile, The King's Cavalier), a passion that was further inflamed by 1,000,000-copy sales and nods from the Literary Guild...