Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Manhattan, Judge Francis Valente referred to Minot Frazier Jelke's "greed, wanton self-debasement, venal exploitation and progressive debauchery," and sentenced him to three to six years in Sing Sing for pimping. There was a silver lining: if he behaves himself, pudgy "Mickey" Jelke will get out not long after his 25th birthday in November 1954, when he will inherit his $1,000,000 oleomargarine fortune...
...days later, Stanley got the highest battlefield decoration-a Silver Star-that the 2nd Division's commander, Major General James C. Fry, could award, and was recommended for a D.S.C. Then he jeeped down to a hospital to shake hands with Colonel Clark, who told him: "You were the bravest man I ever saw." Private Stanley shyly looked down at his big calloused hands and said: "Heck, I would have done the same thing for a private...
Entering the men's novice competition will be Charles Foster '56, whose sister, Sidney Foster, Radcliffe '54, will team with Frank Nelson '55 in the silver dance competition...
...fact is, said Collins, that in 1952 the Eighth Army fired an average of 62,616 rounds of mortar and artillery ammunition a day-nearly ten times the enemy's average daily rate of fire. But such Pentagon efforts to persuade the Senators to look at the silver lining collapsed when Virginia's Harry Byrd put a question to Army Secretary Robert Ten Broeck Stevens...
...Twenty-two of the names (including Actor Howard da Silva, Actress Anne Revere, and three of the moviemakers who were shouted out of Silver City, N. Mex. this month for filming the semi-documentary Salt of the Earth) filed suit for a whopping $51,750,000 damages from 17 film companies, two producer associations, 20 top-ranking cinema executives (L. B. Mayer, Howard Hughes, Dore Schary, Sam Goldwyn, et al.), nine Congressmen (including the committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal...