Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each other in the fiercest of the 35 Senate races this year, 63-year-old Doug McKay-ex-Interior Secretary and Dwight Eisenhower's personal choice as a challenger-and Incumbent Wayne Morse, 56, are hurtling toward Nov. 6, and what is probably the nation's most spectacular collision of political personalities...
...Himmler. Opposite the Strauss butchershop, at No. 50 Schellingstrasse, Heinrich Hoffmann owned a photographic shop; a frequent visitor was a pale man with a wispy mustache named Adolf Hitler, who wore a trench coat and nervously slapped his boots with a dog whip. A goggle-eyed witness of the spectacular rise of Hitler, Himmler & Co. was the butcher's stocky son, Franz Josef. Catching his son distributing Nazi propaganda one day, Butcher Strauss, a staunch Catholic, gave the boy a thrashing right there in the Schellingstrasse. Said Franz Josef Strauss, recalling the incident recently: "That was my first experience...
Wary of Brew's spectacular finishing kick, and, therefore, bent on opening up as big a lead as possible before the stretch, Reider changed his usual tactics by jumping into quick lead at the outset of the race, setting a brisk pace. Brew moved up into second place five yards behind Reider at the first big hill, as both began to pull away from the rest of the field...
Perfect Game. There was brief hope as the week began. Crafty Sal Maglie was rested and ready. The Yanks were gambling on Don Larsen. a lighthearted playboy noted most for spectacular achievements such as wrapping his car around a Florida telephone pole during spring training. In the second game, he had lasted less than two innings...
Died. Hassard Short, 78, British-born stagecraftsman, director of more than 50 Broadway and West End shows; in Nice, France. Light-struck Hassard Short began (in Honeydew, 1920) a spectacular series of stage innovations by slinging an electrician over the stage in a bosun's chair to handle overhead spots, later installed the first permanent lighting bridge (The Music Box Revue, 1921), and the first revolving stage (The Band Wagon, 1931), startled Broadway by staging the Easter parade scene in As Thousands Cheer (1933) in rotogravure brown...