Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brain of Yachting magazine's Managing Editor Bill Taylor, who won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the event in 1934. Moaned Taylor: "The same questions from the same guys, over and over.'' The landlubbers also got help from amateur newsmen who had persuaded their home-town editors to send them off to the races because they were salty sailors. Blonde, blue-eyed Betsy Wolfe, 22, sleek as a twelve-meter yacht, and an old crewing hand, turned out so well for the Schenectady (N.Y.) Gazette that her salary was raised from $6 a story...
Johns Hopkins identified it 30 years ago as the Philistine city of Gath, home town of the giant Goliath who died when Slingshot Expert David sunk a stone in his forehead. The Israeli government named a nearby settlement Kiryat Gath (Gath-town), and settlers were proud of Gath's Biblical background, even though the city and Goliath had been anti-Israelite...
Tall (6 ft. 1 in.) Archbishop Meyer 55, was in Baltimore for a consecration* when the Vatican made its announcement, probably was glad to be out of town for the Milwaukee fuss and feathers that attended the news. No lover of the limelight, he is a scholarly, quiet man who smokes an occasional pipe, takes an occasional fishing trip (he calls fishing the "apostolic recreation") and puts in an occasional appearance at County Stadium to watch the Milwaukee Braves...
Smith's reaction to getting the Treasury beat was to tear into the recession news with the seriousness and energy of a cub reporter. He turned out interpretative pieces, got a clear beat on one month's unemployment figures when they were the hottest news in town, was among the first to predict that the federal deficit for this fiscal year would be high (current Bureau of the Budget estimate: $12.2 billion...
Things start with one of those tidy little coincidences necessary to full implausibility. Link Jones (Gary Cooper), a onetime gunslinger who has been improving his character by homesteading for two decades, sets out on a train for Fort Worth to bring back a schoolteacher for his town. With him on the train are two other travelers with speaking roles-Julie London as a café singer, and Arthur...