Word: sixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Press story (with picture) on good-looking Sheila Daly, teenagers' columnist for the Chicago Tribune and 34 other newspapers, produced, she says, the following reaction : 1 ) Six proposals of marriage, 2) an offer of a date for the Army-Navy football game from a West Point cadet, 3) a score of letters and telegrams on miscellaneous subjects, 4) a visit from a Hollywood representative to discuss a movie about a teen-age girl columnist. Miss Daly thinks that she would like to be technical adviser for that...
Almost as soon as he arrived in London, Oklahoma's loud-lowing Democratic Senator Elmer Thomas called a press conference. During his six-week, 14-country tour of Europe, he had reprimanded the Swedes for not entertaining him properly, had miffed Belgian reporters by exhibiting (but not opening) ostentatiously displayed bottles of Scotch whisky, and had trampled other European toes by praising Spain's Franco and calling for rearmament of the Germans...
...going fast . . . The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being." -John Ruskin Six thousand feet above Arkansas the left outboard engine of the big DC-6 began to pop dangerous orange flames. Unhurriedly, as became his 52 years and his 20,000 flying hours, Pilot Laurens Claude flicked the switches, cutting the bad power plant and feathering its propeller. On her three good...
...Tricks. Rugged, bellicose Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, who hasn't been quite so rambunctious since Judge George B. Harris clamped a six months' jail sentence on him early in the trial for contempt, rushed at John Schomaker like a cocky mahout. Pretending to read from a transcript of Schomaker's testimony in a 1939 court hearing, he asked the witness: "Do you remember being asked 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Answer...
...team is not a question mark club. On successive nights it walloped the MIT freshmen, 74 to 40, and Dean Academy, 60 to 35. The Terriers have only one starter over six feet, but three of the first team received "most outstanding schoolboy player" awards in Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire...