Word: spottedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"I Gotta Go On." His rapid ascension came partly because Tammany was torn by factionalism, partly because of his capacity for work and his attention to political details, partly because the late Bronx Leader Ed Flynn, the real power in New York politics during Tammany's dog days, spotted...
On his second pass Koelsch spotted Wilkins. "He dropped the sling and I got into it. The North Koreans had every damn gun they had firing. Frankly, it was so bad I would rather have taken my chances at staying on the ground . . ." When Wilkins was dangling about three feet...
An independent Hollywood producer spotted a hot property in a politician's life story, bought rights to make a screen biography of South Dakota's modest, cigar-puffing Republican Governor Joe Foss, 40. The script will need no embroidery. As ringmaster of "Joe's Flying Circus" on...
Student. In Altadena, Calif., arrested after 200 burglaries, a 14-year-old boy told police he had boned up on the lives of famous criminals, studied the California Penal Code, was planning at the time he was caught to practice his technique on two small safes he had spotted in...
In all likelihood, not even death would serve to clear up much of the mystery that surrounded Gulbenkian's life. The extent of his fortune is still a jealously guarded secret, and the incredible diversity of his financial interests was such that probably nobody but Gulbenkian himself had more...