Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said goodbye, kissed, parted as freemasons & he bowed to me as his King," his diary noted, and he was not going to see him deprived of all honor in his former kingdom. Sir John Reith of the BBC wanted to introduce David in his farewell speech as "Mr. Edward Windsor." On King George's insistence, he became instead His Royal Highness Prince Edward...
Died. Martene Windsor (Bill) Corum, 63, syndicated New York Journal-American sports columnist, president of Louisville's Churchill Downs race track, network commentator for major boxing events and the World Series; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Missouri-born Bill Corum started out with the New York Times, went over to Hearst in 1925. That year he saw his first Kentucky Derby, from then on advertised the race so fondly in his columns that when Colonel Matt Winn died in 1949 Corum found that he had written his way into the presidency of Churchill Downs...
...bible of budding scientific and engineering genius, the blueprint to mechanical marvels and monstrosities. But in recent years the 56-year-old magazine has been hard pressed to compete with the wonders of the Missile and Atomic Age; for nearly a year Chicago's H. H. Windsor family has been trying to sell Popular Mechanics (circ. 1,325,735)-Last week it found a buyer: Hearst Corp.'s magazine division.-The buy was shrewdly calculated; magazine circulation is up 23% since 1950, while Hearst's 17 newspapers have been collectively losing ground. Hearst hopes to pump...
...Dallas, Texas 32 Grean, Michael '59 B 5.10 187 Rye, N. Y. 33 Muller, Louis '61 B 5.0 170 Maywood, Ill. 34 Forstmann, Tony '60 B 5.11 205 Greenwich, Conn. 35 Blanchard, Robert '61 B 6.2 197 Hamden, Conn. 40 Hallas, Herbert '59 B 5.9 162 Windsor, Conn. 41 Kahn, Jeffrey '60 B 5.11 199 Kenilworth, Ill. 42 Wyatt, Hugh '60 B 5.11 172 Atlantic City, N. J. 43 Wolfe, Kenneth '59 B 5.10 175 Norristown, Pa. 44 Kenney, Brian '61 B 6.0 195 Newton, Mass. 48 Hemphill, James '59 B 5.11 181 Johnstown, Pa. 50 Clark, Thomas...
Ground Stroke. In Windsor Locks, Conn., when the cops made broad insinuations about Kaston Gailius by testifying in court that when they nabbed him, his eyes were watery, his face was flushed and he could not pick up a coin from the floor, Gailius won an acquittal by explaining that sinus trouble had made him teary, he had been sunburned, and he was exhausted from a game of tennis...