Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...division, Italy's Umberto Maglioli, driving a Ferrari, set a new race record of 17 hrs. 40 min. 26 sec. In the small sports car division, Germany's Hans Hermann, driving a Porsche, finished in a record 19.32:33. In the U.S. small stock car division, Texan Tommy Drisdale, driving a Dodge, ran the route...
...teams, the best (for the last three seasons) is the Detroit Lions. And the best of all the Lions, the best quarterback in the world, is Robert Lawrence Layne, a blond, bandy-legged Texan with a prairie squint in his narrow blue eyes and an unathletic paunch puffing out his ample frame (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.). Layne, a T-formation specialist, led the Lions out of the National Football League's cellar, called the plays and fired the passes that won them the national championship in 1952 and 1953. He is currently doing his bruising best...
...short speech. Said he: "In 1953 I realized all of us would meet somewhere, but I thought it would be in the poorhouse instead of like this." The occasion was a party in honor of Tojie Harrell and his part in preserving an old Texas tradition: that a Texan's word is as good as his bond. After the ranchers had eaten all the fried chicken they could hold and had sung themselves hoarse, they gave him a "cow shower" as a token of their esteem: a brand-new ranch Jeep and a truckload of 25 prime Angus calves...
...waspish corporation boss (Clifton Webb) summons his three top district managers; the best man & wife team will get the vacant general managership. The three nervous couples show up: an ulcer-ridden, self-made man (Fred MacMurray), at odds with his wife (Lauren Bacall); a tough, reticent Texan (Van Heflin) and his full-bodied, social-climbing mate (Arlene Dahl); a family man from Kansas City (Cornel Wilde) and his too-enthusiastic wife (June Allyson...
Divorced. By Susan Hayward (real name: Edythe Marrener), 34, red-haired cinemactress (Snows of Kilimanjaro): Jess Barker, 39, onetime bobby-sox hero (The Texan Meets Calamity Jane); after ten years of marriage, two children; in Hollywood. She won the right to keep her part (better than $300,000) of their community property; he got the Ford station wagon and the right to visit their twin sons one night a week and alternate weekends...