Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruins at Oaxaca, Mexico. A footloose insurance agent (Glenn Ford) comes into possession of several old sheets of parchment which are a clue to a priceless treasure buried among the ruins. In practically no time, he finds himself mixed up with such shady characters as a fat invalid (Francis Sullivan), a raven-haired Latin beauty (Patricia Medina), an alcoholic blonde (Diana Lynn), a mysterious fellow with a crew cut and smoked glasses (Sean McGlory). The feverish chasing is punctuated with slugging and shooting. This sort of thing has been done better a number of times, but the scenery, shot...
...Astoria, Ore., Robert Hjorten and George Sullivan spotted a cop about to tag their cars for over-parking, sprinted across the street to put nickels in the parking meters and thus avoid 50? parking fines, were fined $1 each for jaywalking...
...honor guard carry out the casket. She had known very well the political Taft, a figure so often in contrast to the personal Taft: one argumentative, impatient with slow minds, the other amiable and tolerant; one stiff-seeming and standoffish, the other resonantly singing airs from Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, devoted to his four sons, playing with his grandchildren, who laughingly called him "the Gop." There had been contrast and sometimes conflict between the two tafts. She had not wanted him to campaign for the presidency in 1952; if he had won, she would have been deprived of much...
Diplomacy in Israel last week had a sort of Gilbert & Sullivan air about it. The Foreign Ministry was in Jerusalem, the ambassadors were in Tel Aviv, and neither side would visit the other. If Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett wanted to impart important information to Britain or the U.S., he bypassed their emissaries 40 miles away and sent word halfway around the world to his ambassadors to go see the Foreign Office or the State Department. The only direct, official link between the foreign minister and the diplomats was a lone assistant protocol officer left behind in Tel Aviv...
Last week, in a traditional smoke-filled Manhattan hotel room, the opposing Democratic party bosses had it out. Queens Leader James A. Roe, Brooklyn's Kenneth Sutherland and Staten Island's Jeremiah A. Sullivan insisted on nominating Impellitteri. De Sapio and Congressman Charles A. Buckley, representing Flynn, refused to go along with them, then carried the fight into a hotel corridor, where reporters overheard the end. Yelled Leader Buckley, "You are wrecking the Democratic Party!" Snapped Leader Roe, "You might as well go out on 42nd Street. We're going to stop you sabotaging the party...