Word: shooter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...score cards. He quit school at twelve, drove a team of horses for a local grocer for $4 a week and, at 21, failed at running his own grocery. In 1917 he took a job in a St. Louis store of the Kroger chain, eventually became chief trouble-shooter for the whole chain (3,174 stores). He quit to join National Tea because Kroger rejected his ideas for extensive reorganization on the grounds that the company was already doing well. Says McNamara: "Hell, the time to make changes is when you are doing all right-not when...
...diplomatic set had gathered at the Executive Mansion to celebrate President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman's election to a third term. They were all watching a home movie about "Uncle Shad" when Dunbar rushed into the darkened hall, leaped to the stage and fired his .38-caliber six-shooter at President Tubman. His first shot missed, and hit a Liberian Congressman in the leg. The second and third shots rang out as two police inspectors rushed the gunman; both were wounded. By this time the assembled dignitaries were scurrying out of the hall. Women in evening gowns fled, leaving...
...tonight's game, Wilson agreed that his team will have to stop Columbia's phenomenal scorer Chet Forte (pronounced For-toe) if it is going to come anywhere near winning. "Forte is the second best college shooter I've ever seen," Wilson said yesterday. "The only better one I've ever seen was Larry Costello of Niagara." (Costello was Niagara's captain last season...
...Shooter (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC). With Jimmy Stewart...
...Shooter (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Western serial, starring Jimmy Stewart...