Word: willises
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When war-trained Willis Heath Proctor started flying the mail for Colonial Western Airways 23 years ago, a pilot was still a glamorous daredevil who put his faith in good luck and seat-of-the-pants intuition. There were no radio ranges, no airways weather reports, none but the most...
Last week, in a record-breaking turnout, Graham won a precarious victory. He polled 295,000 votes to 245,000 for Corporation Lawyer Willis Smith. But Robert R. .("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds and a pig breeder named Olla Ray Boyd had polled a total of 62,000 votes between them-enough...
Graham's real opposition came from 62-year-old Willis Smith, a Raleigh corporation lawyer and chairman of the Duke University board of trustees who once served as president of the American Bar Association, and was a registered state lobbyist for several manufacturers and wholesalers. Though he was a...
Married. Julia Ruth Flanders, 33, table-tennis star (once a contender for the world's championship), adopted daughter of baseball's late great George Herman ("Babe") Ruth; and Willis Grant Meloon Jr., 29, an Episcopalian divinity student; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
"Chain Lightning" is a story of post-war jet piloting. Matt Brennan (Bogart), is a former B-17 ace who becomes chief test pilot for Leland Willis (Raymond Massey) after the war, finds his wartime love (Eleanor Parker) working as Willis secretary and her new fiance, Carl Troxell (Richard Whorf...