Word: wellington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wellington, Washington, Clive. all appear here not as figures out of a distant past, but as men whose acts and words are still part of a living heritage...
...just like Waterloo!" shouted a gleeful spectator when the good news, 7 to 4 for Britain, was posted on the Scoreboard. For golfers, it was at least that. It took Wellington only four days to beat Napoleon. It had taken Britain 24 years to whip the United States for the Ryder...
Beneath statues of the Duke of Wellington, William Pitt the Younger and of himself, 82-year-old Sir Winston Churchill, wearing white tie and tails, the blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest, looked and sounded the proud and unyielding Englishman as he spoke out last week in London's 500-year-old Guildhall. His audience was 550 American and British lawyers and their wives, his theme was that "justice knows no frontiers," and his warning was that "justice is not being achieved" in the U.N. Assembly...
...tour-one in Europe and another in the Far East. Last week the European exhibition was touring Germany, after opening in Copenhagen; it will go on to London and Paris. The Asian edition was touring Japan, after opening in Seoul; it will go on to Manila and Wellington, N.Z. Both shows consist of varied works of four Pacific Northwest painters (Mark Tobey...
...present, he is out to win every set he can in his eighth year as a pro. Now an oldtimer at 28, Gonzales is too much of a businessman and too good at his business to take his occasional beatings lightly. He fights for every point. (At Wellington last week, when a close line call went against him, he turned to the stands and asked: "Is there an eye doctor about?") Victories on the tour mean cash-as Pancho has learned the hard way. He signed for $80,000 to play against Kramer in the 1950 season, was beaten...