Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train from Montreal at New York's Grand Central Station last week and asked, "How are the Pittsburgh Pirates doing?" What made the question a little surprising was that this Pirate fan -six feet tall, handsome and ebony black -wore a long white velvet gown which, when it flapped, revealed a startling blue-and-white-checked undergarment and a pair of tan brogues. He is the leader of millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away...
...tight little valley high in the Andes, the 400-year-old capital city of Quito (pop. 174,000) was astir with a new kind of bustle. Its Conservative mayor, tall, thin Jacinto Jijén y Caamano, 57, was making things hum. He had talked President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra into borrowing $4,000,000 in Washington to build the city's first aqueduct since Inca times. Said Mayor Jijén (pronounced "he-hone"): "This summer, for the first time, Quito will have water...
...Where are ye going?" said a voice with a strong Scotch accent. I stopped and looked. . . . On one of the rocks sat a very tall man, almost a giant, with a flowing beard. . . . Here was an enthroned and shining god, whose ageless spirit weighed upon mine like a burden of solid gold: and yet, at the very same moment, here was an old, weather-beaten man, one who might have been a shepherd...
...tall, middle-aged Harry Bracy sold Kroger his chain of some 30 Thrift Stores for $1,000,000. He took a vacation trip to New York, where his chief dissipation was a ride on a rubberneck bus. Then he went back to his one room and bath in Carbondale's Roberts Hotel. Kroger soon found that business in the former Thrift Stores territory was dropping off. The company called in Bracy, by then bored at separation from his beloved stores. He told Kroger: "Give me a salary plus percentage of sales and no limit." Kroger agreed and put Bracy...
Died. Henry George Charles Lascelles (rhymes with tassels), 64, sporting, moose-tall sixth Earl of Harewood, wealthy landowner husband of George VI's only sister, Mary, Britain's Princess Royal; of a heart ailment and asthma; in Leeds, England...