Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the top ten are three big oilmen and a former lawyer. Also on the list is an Ohio gambler whose method made history. Ranging through football-talented Ohio and Pennsylvania in the 1940s, he spotted prospective stars, would sometimes offer to send them to college. The boys never knew his profession, but the evening before a big game he would put through a friendly call, find out in passing about the team's prospects. Most respected big gambler of all is a former securities analyst who lost his job with a large bank because, among other things...
...formally voting not to accept Negro children from the Providence Rosenwald School. The next move was up to Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler. If he orders the guard removed, Mrs. Gordon, whose case is buttressed by neither a county board order nor a court order, will probably have to send her children to the Rosenwald School for another year while Clay belatedly works on a plan for integration...
Fabian as Lover. Biographer Ervine was a close friend of Bernard and Charlotte Shaw for more than 30 years. If Shaw had had some beastly secret tucked up his sleeve. Ervine could now disclose it-and send Shaw's stock booming. But the new material in his book, consisting of unpublished correspondence with the Shaws and diaries kept by G.B.S., merely stresses what has always been widely feared-that, though Shaw "enjoyed carnal concurrence" with women, he thought he had greater talent as a playwright...
Moving on to Washington at week's end to lash out at Dwight D. Eisenhower and hole up for consultations with Old Crony Harry Vaughan, Truman got to talking about his place in the Democratic campaign. "I've told 'em not to send me any place where I could do them any harm," he said. New Jersey's Democratic U.S. Representative T. James Tumulty thought he knew just the place. "Send him," he telegraphed Adlai Stevenson, "on a slow boat to China...
...Unita, once top-heavy with Marxist polemics, now goes easy on the politics, is substituting more news about the U.S., more sports and entertainment, is even going in for sensational tabloid-type crime stories. It takes eight wire services, including Hearst's International News Service, and plans to send a special correspondent to cover the Olympics in Melbourne this fall...