Word: sr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this business, now worth some $10,000,000 a year, south Georgia farmers can thank Paul Bearing Fulwood Sr., 56. When he was 16, Tifton-born Paul Fulwood ran away from home rather than become a machinist, as his father wanted. He went to Florida and worked on a tomato farm, where he got the idea for the seedling business. At 17, he returned to Tifton, started to raise plants. First year's yield: 35 Ibs. of cabbage seed, some 350 bu. of potatoes...
...greatest ovation in my 50 years of concert going," said Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. Said Jeritza: "A rabbit could have scared me away. I went to the post like a race horse which wears blinders. My heart was going boom, boom, boom...
Henry Morgenthau Sr., ex-Ambassador to Turkey and father of the ex-Secretary of the Treasury, turned 90 in Manhattan, peered at the world, declared happily that it was "far better" than when he came to the U.S., back...
...bestselling, brilliant Age of Jackson (TIME, Oct. 22) was a likely contender for a Pulitzer Prize in history this year. And though Arthur Sr., 30 years older, has been a full professor of American history at Harvard since 1925, nobody would accuse Arthur Jr. of trading on his father's reputation...
...William ("Mouse") McGovern Jr., now twelve, one of four children (the others are girls), has been called by connoisseurs "the best bartender this side of New Orleans." He also speaks Chinese and has a Quiz Kid's knowledge of history, picked up in Sunday bathtub sessions with Bill Sr...