Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALLEN R. ROBERTSON Captain, U.S.A.F. Big Spring, Texas...
...headed by Johnny Dio (born Dioguardi), a highly successful career hoodlum. Raised on the lower East Side, Dio at 20 was milking protection money from garment-district truckers, at 23 was sent to Sing Sing by Racket-Busting Tom Dewey, at 26 emerged to try new fields. Last spring District Attorney Frank Hogan charged Dio had been helping Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa in an attempt to control Manhattan teamsters...
...Manhattan's Basin Street last week, Don Elliott was so versatile that he sometimes seemed like a case of musical split personality. When he played It Might as Well Be Spring, he played the trumpet with a soft, low, fuzzy tone and a stammering swing that was as intimate as if he were whispering into a pretty ear. When he played Moonlight in Vermont, he played the vibraphone with soft-headed sticks, rolling out arpeggios as pretty and cottony as a cumulus cloud. When he played Makin' Whoopee, he played...
...later," he has turned the Fed, after a ten-year interlude (1941-51) as a puppet of the Treasury, back into an independent and effective custodian of the nation's money. Republican officials sometimes question Democrat Martin's judgment, notably after he boosted the discount rate last spring, at a time when many experts thought that a slump in business was ahead. But no one ever questions his integrity. He is famed in Washington as a man of low pressure and high principle, the boy wonder who has continued to make good ever since he was elected president...
...Daniel's so special is its clean, slightly smoky taste arid its smooth richness in the gullet. The secret goes back to 1866, when Jack Daniel, a mall (5 ft. 5 in.) tidy young man in 'rock coat and fawn-colored vest started to make whisky. Using spring water free of iron traces (murderous to whisky), he added the finest white corn, the best rye, barley malt, both fresh and ripe yeast to make a "sour" mash, different from most (fresh yeast only) bourbons. He let it ferment 24 hours longer than ordinary Dourbons, then leached it through...