Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round, owl-eyed oddball in hornrimmed glasses had never seen fit to set foot in Omaha before, but one day last week the town turned out as if he were a returning hero. The Junior Chamber of Commerce met him at Union Station; he was taken on a tour of Boys Town, paid his respects to the archbishop, visited a convent for errant girls, and was named Chief Charging Buffalo by the Omaha Indians. The excuse for all the excitement seemed as zany as the celebration itself: Stan Freberg, visiting comic-turned-adman from California, had come to town...
...tall, blunt-featured man whose interests have long ranged farther than the laboratory, Seaborg follows Cal teams on out-of-town trips, turns up at locker-room wakes-and also fights football professionalism. In 1957 he became a leading teacher-by-television in the science series programmed by San Francisco's hot-shot educational TV station, KQED. He recently helped overhaul math and science teaching in California public schools...
Thanks to Federal Deposit Insurance, 95% of the depositors, those with less than $10,000 in their accounts will be repaid in full. The rest must take their dubious chances, including the town of Edgewater, which had $68,000 in the bank...
...bought a captain's uniform and commandeered a squad of soldiers by the simple method of walking up to them and ordering them to follow him. Barking "Los" with all the crisp confidence of a drill instructor, he led his band on a raid of Koepenick's town hall, arrested the bumbling mayor and treasurer, walked off with the contents of the town till. Later, after Voigt gave himself up in return for a promise of getting his passport, the Kaiser was told about the escapade. Chuckling appreciatively, the Kaiser, according to the film, commented: "See, that...
Zuckmayer's true tale springs from the celebrated saga of Wilhelm Voigt, a turn-of-the-century cobbler who lived near Koepenick, a little town eight miles from