Word: walt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patton, then twelve years old, attracted the attention of a West Hartford, Conn, newspaper. Though frail and shy, Louis seemed ambitious, told the paper that he was willing to try anything-"soda jerking, maybe"-to earn enough money for a trip to Hollywood, where he wanted to work for Walt Disney. Four years later, when he was 16, Louis dropped out of high school. Explained his father, Orall Patton: "Louis couldn't stand the drinking by the high-school boys, especially their breath...
...found that Argentine textbooks were shot through with excerpts from the works of Benjamin Franklin, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Browning, Grimm, Schiller and Turgenev-all subversive influences, in the Peronista view. "A repulsive state of affairs," declared the governor. He named a committee to scourge the foreign authors from the schoolbooks. "The schools," he decreed, "must teach the child the mysticism, the soul and the sentiment of Peronismo...
...feet. In the pole vault, an event the U.S. has lost only once, the Americans this year have two 15-footers, Rev. Bob Richards and Don Laz, who are expected to finish one-two, with the U.S.'s George Mattos in third place. The best U.S. high jumper, Walt Davis, is in a stratosphere (6 ft. 10½ in.) by himself...
...High Jumper Walt Davis, a stringy (6 ft. 8½ in., 210 lbs.) Texas A. & M. basketball player, who barely ticked the bar off at 6 ft. 11 in., the world record. Grumbled Davis: "I can do better...
...winning high jump of Walt Davis, a towering Texan, who cleared 6 ft. 10½ in., narrowly missing the world record of 6 ft. 11 in. Olympic record...