Word: solee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus last week in Colorado these words, spoken by ex-Governor Dan Thornton, wealthy rancher and onetime farmboy, shoved Colorado's senatorial race right off its mile-high mountaintop and down into the barnyard. As sole Republican candidate for the vacated Senate seat of ailing Eugene D. Millikin, who is retiring, the popular Thornton will have to go to the polls against one of two Democratic primary candidates: former Congressman John Carroll or Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Thornton had decided by last week that Brannan was the man to beat...
...acre ranch that Rojas recently bought in an unusual auction. Originally the judge in charge of the sale insisted that the bidding start at 2,500,000 pesos. He was abruptly dismissed from his post. His successor lowered the starting bid by 800,000 pesos, and Rojas, the sole bidder, snapped up for 1,700,000 an estate worth an estimated...
...that he was a benign despot, succeeded in looking like a benign father. His three daughters (Ferial, Fadia, Fawzia) are by Farida, his first wife, who in three tries bore him no male heirs. At his knee, Farouk fondly held Prince Ahmed Fuad II, 3, a winsome lad and sole product of his second queen, Narriman Sadek...
...uttered a good many words that probably belonged in the spit toon, but they lodged vividly in the memory of Russian-born, Harvard-educated Charles Angoff. Critic, Novelist and Edi tor Angoff has a legitimate claim to know Mencken well-from 1925 to 1933 he was Mencken's sole editorial associate on the Mercury. But this will only partly help the reader to know Mencken better. Angoff's strip-poker method of characterization rarely gets under the man's skin; it merely shows he had one. "Say any damn thing you please," Mencken once told Angoff, "only...
...Their road leads through the Karroo, a desert plateau of Cape Province. Beside a dry river at the sun-blistered dorp of Mirredal, they put up for the night in a ruined boarding house. It is full of grotesque and expensive furniture; they are the only lodgers, and its sole occupants are a man, his wife and, of course, the usual African servants...