Word: valley
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Elected Kentucky's Governor by an alltime-record majority (515,299 to 335,404): Bert Thomas Combs, 48, wiry (5 ft. 10 in.), handsome ex-judge from the mountain-valley town of Prestonsburg (pop. 3,585, altitude 645 ft). Combs exploited a year of falling farm income by attacking his opponent, G.O.P. ex-Congressman (1952-58) John M. Robsion Jr., for pro-Benson votes while in the House-and never missed a chance to mispronounce Robsion's name "Ro-Ben-son." Combs's running mate for Lieutenant Governor, onetime Louisville Mayor Wilson Watkins Wyatt...
...turn back immigrants from the South, i.e., bar Negro immigration to the city, and tossed out wild charges of corruption which he failed to prove; in fact, he was scarcely able to convince anybody that he is a Philadelphian (he keeps an apartment in the city, a home at Valley Forge). Result: Stassen became one of the most soundly defeated Republican candidates in Philadelphia history-433,298 to 227,742. Said Childe Harold: Philadelphians had not voted against him, but merely shown "their unwillingness at this time to accept my program." Cried he: "I'll never give...
Blocky, sandy-haired Harry Howard, 40, general manager of a Los Angeles machinery company, is president of San Gabriel Valley Lodge 1710 of B'nai B'rith, the national Jewish benevolent association. Last week he filed an appeal with B'nai B'rith Grand Lodge headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz. to prevent his expulsion. The ground for the proposed ouster: Harry Howard is an elder of the Mormon Church; therefore...
When Smith was brought into Eden Hospital in nearby Castro Valley, Dr. Stephen Landreth, 37, an orthopedic surgeon, prepared for a standard amputation. Then he had a thought: "This is too good a leg to throw away." He got on the telephone to Dr. Alan Gathright, 38, a vascular surgeon, 20 miles away in Oakland. Asked Dr. Landreth: "You want to try for a miracle?" Gathright did, and he sped to the hospital...
...Long Branch, N.J. 18 Iseman, Michael D. '61 20 6:3 200 Fremont, Neb. 77 Klein, James W. '61 19 6:2 197 Pine Lakes, N.J. 36 Kornrumpf, Donald M. '61 20 5:10 185 Uniondale, N.Y. 25 Laird, William P. '62 19 5:11 175 Rose Valley, Pa. 34 Lane, James S. '61 19 5:11 185 Hopkins, Minn. 38 Large, Henry W. '62 19 6:1 200 Spring House, Pa. 33 Loud, Brewster M. '61 20 6:1 189 New Canaan, Conn. 19 MacMurray, John C. '61 20 5:11 170 Camp Hill, Pa. 26 Marano, Theodore...