Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...together, Johnson and Sarit got down to brass tacks. At one point, the Vice President bemused the Premier by making a solid point with some corn-pone rhetoric: "My daddy taught me back in Texas what to do when you see a snake. We take a hoe off the wall and get him: Now, there are lots of snakes around here. We have our hands on the hoe handle. Are you going to grab the handle with us so we can get those snakes together...
Ravenel and Boyden will have their names inscribed on a large plaque which hangs on the wall of the Dillion Field House lounge, and will also receive engraved watches, part of the tradition of the award. The watches will be presented this morning by Thomas D. Bolles, director of athletics, in a brief ceremony at the Field House lounge...
...Wall Street mystery was solved when Bertin C. Gamble, 63, admitted to being the anonymous bidder who offered $40 a share for 470,000 shares of Chicago's General Outdoor Advertising. Elusive Bert Gamble, who built up the Gamble-Skogmo chain of auto accessory and appliance shops (380 stores, 2,000 dealers), now specializes in buying companies and reselling them at a handsome profit. Backed up by $45 million in cash from the 1960 sale of Gamble-Skogmo Inc.'s interest in Western Auto Supply, Gamble says he wants control of North America's biggest outdoor advertising...
...champion (1951 and 1958), a scarred survivor of 28 crackups; in a flaming crash on the Indianapolis Speedway when the Steady Special he was testing for a friend on the eve of time trials for the Memorial Day race lost a 1? cotter pin, careened into a wall at nearly 145 m.p.h...
Died. Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, 73, onetime $3-a-week Wall Street delivery boy who made and lost thousands on market tips, parlayed a string of good ones into a $150,000 New York Stock Exchange seat in 1926, reportedly made $10 million selling short in 1930; of complications following heart surgery; in Houston. Smith earned his nickname when the market collapsed on "Black Thursday," Oct. 24, 1929. by rushing into his office shouting: "Sell 'em. They're not worth anything...