Word: tars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Househunting in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands and finishing a new book, Manhattan-bred Novelist Herman (Marjorie Mornings tar) Woulc acknowledged that he had sold his New York apartment, described his new environment in terms ("peaceful," "superb climate") seldom hung on his native city...
...trying to plug its own filter brand (called Rothmans) at the expense of the industry. The company is struggling to win a major market in Canada, and Supersalesman O'Neil-Dunne, speaking in Toronto, claimed that Rothmans' king-size filter brand yielded 14.4% to 38.7% less tars than the four other bestselling Canadian filters. Furthermore, "an increasing section of scientific opinion believes that if the tar intake from a single cigarette were reduced to 18 milligrams,† there would be a significant reduction in the risk of lung cancer...
...Brent), demonstrates what has become of Novelist Burroughs' inarticulate hero, the offspring of titled British parents whose deaths left him as a child to the motherhood of the jungle. The pristine Tarzan of the screen who hated all white men-although his name, in Burroughswahili, meant white (tar) man (zan)-is now the champion of modern medical science. Tarzan 1958 knows a simple defense against the slings and arrows of mumbo jumbo. His prescription: "Take pill quick...
...were offspring of Adios-Raider Frost, Ike Frost, Adios Paul and Kwik. Two who were not were Del Miller's own entry-a pair of colts named Thorpe Hanover and O'Brien Hanover. Owned by Pennsylvania Oilman Hugh Grant, Thorpe and O'Brien were sons of Tar Heel-another Miller-developed sire. Grant, who depends on Miller's advice and uncanny instinct for horseflesh in making his purchases, bought the two colts in 1956 for a modest $13,000 and turned them over to Miller for training. In his skilled hands, they had already...
...changed fast. As the pacers whipped past the three-quarter mark, his O'Brien Hanover was in the lead with Thorpe Hanover close behind. Only a final burst to second place by Tommy Winn's Flying Time marred a straight one-two finish for Miller's Tar Heel colts. Their first and third took $67,310.62 of the total purse. Also in the money in fourth and fifth place: Adios' sons Raider Frost and Adios Paul. Quipped the New York News's Wes Gaffer: "One more stakes victory and Trainer Del Miller owns Roosevelt Raceway...