Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grinning like a Cheshire cat, Press Secretary Hagerty bounded into the converted basketball court in town, where newsmen had been standing by impatiently. The President, he said, had discussed future plans, as well as "politics generally," with Hagerty and, on the telephone, with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. But newsmen could not squeeze a smidgen more from Hagerty. Said he, darting his tongue into his cheek: "I'm merely trying to keep you informed...
Last week Candidate Stevenson was playing to the hilt his role of leading candidate, party peacemaker and (with all outward confidence) the certain nominee. He traveled to Bloomington, Ill. (his old home town) for a cucumber-sandwich garden party and a Fourth of July picnic...
...July flags. Processing the bets were highly organized wire rooms where the big bookies sat at banks of telephones, raked in a take every dollar as good as the rackets produced in Capone's heyday. All this confirmed the Crime Commission's long-held fear that the town would be opened up shortly after last year's election...
...girl kissed the hands of an American woman and then told her story. She had been one of hundreds of suspects rounded up by police after the Poznan bread-and freedom-riots a week before (TIME, July 9). They had been herded into an airfield on the outskirts of town and forced to sleep two nights on the floor, had been fed on bread and water. "We are very, very afraid," said another of the Poles in the coffee shop...
...when she went on the road with Count Basie's band, Billie began to find out about life and "ofays."* Life: "Living on the road with a band, nobody had time to sleep alone, let alone with somebody . . . We'd pull into a town . . . take a long look at the bed, go play the gig [date], come back and look at the bed again, and then get on the bus." Ofays: "They told Basie I was too yellow to sing with all the black men in his band. Somebody might think I was white . . . So they got special...