Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas City that his 620-acre farm at Camden, Ind. is making money hand over fist, Wickard said: "I can't complain about $21 hogs. My son-in-law and I sold ten Holstein cows the other day for $240 each. I didn't believe in Santa Claus until then...
Born. To Gregory Peck, 42, cinemactor, and Veronique Passani Peck, 26, onetime French reporter: a first daughter, second child (he has three sons by a previous marriage); in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Cecilia. Weight...
...Goya [Portrait of La Marquesa de Santa Cruz) looks more magnificent than ever in its proper place in the "softly lighted Spanish Gallery," and, of course, we are all very proud to have her. It was wonderful to be able to give her the kind of debut that you made for her [Los Angeles' Goya-April 14]. The article is excellent, and evidently is having an electrifying effect on friends and colleagues. The Marquesa even got a telegram of saludos and welcome from her three blacksmith countrymen in the Frick's Forge...
...behemoth (more than 300 Ibs. at top weight) radio-TV sports figure, contributing editor and football expert of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, onetime (1948-52) head football coach at Yale, author (The Herman Hickman Reader), wit. storyteller, versifier; of complications following an operation for gastric ulcer; in Washington, B.C. A sideline Santa Claus who could quote Shakespeare by the act, Hickman won such popularity at Yale that the university once gave him the longest contract in its history (ten years) despite his not Merriwell-done record: when he resigned in 1952 in favor of a radio-TV career, his Yale elevens...
Urned Income. In Los Angeles, Joe Chavers got his .lunch wagon stuck in the path of a Santa Fe passenger train, leaped to safety in the nick of time as the train hit the wagon, demolished everything but the coffee urn, from which Chavers sold hot java to the train crew and spectators...