Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARKANSAS' WILBUR DAIGH MILLS, 49, is the youngest chairman in the history of the tax-writing Ways & Means Committee, co-protector with Appropriations of the House's constitutional power to originate all money bills. Son of a small-town banker. Mills lives in Kensett, which by legend got its name when natives told Missouri Pacific surveyors, trying to decide where to build a station: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Since 1939 he has represented the hill-and-dale Second District, which also boasts such place names as Morning Sun, Evening Shade and Oil Trough...
...physicians will go to any lengths to trace the source of the trouble. Last week Dr. Harris D. Riley Jr. told a New Orleans meeting of the American Federation for Clinical Research how elementary gumshoe work had led disease detectives from Oklahoma City to a small-town hospital that was a hotbed of infection...
...West of Broadway, every town is Bridgeport...
...when vigorous old (77) Cecil Blount DeMille died of a heart attack in Hollywood last week, the town that he had taught to operate on the grand scale buried him with uncommon dignity. Only a handful of mourners were at his grave. It was a modest exit for a showman whose 70 pictures have made more money* than any other movies ever filmed...
...TIME, Nov. 10), heir of his sister, the widow of John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who earned his fortune in barbed wire and once-so they say-bet $1,000,000 on the result of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window; in St. Charles. A town of 7,700, St. Charles and its enterprises received over the years some $5,000,000 in gifts from E. J. Baker...