Word: winners
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...winner and probable next governor was grey, husky William S. Beardsley, a veteran state representative. Before the campaign, Beardsley was little known outside his home county, where he runs a drugstore at New Virginia (pop. 450) and manages his 900-acre farm. Burly (5 ft. 10½ in., 200 Ibs.) Bill Beardsley got around to picnics and rallies all over the state, paid no attention to the professional politicos. Most Iowans liked his record in the legislature. He had fought the governor on school legislation, had opposed Blue's stringent labor laws. When the returns came in, Bill Beardsley...
...podium, the whole house was on its feet screaming "viva il maestro;" cried one voice, "Non c'e che lui" (he's in a class by himself). For 19 minutes the bedlam continued; the soloists (two of whom, Soprano Herva Nelli and Baritone Frank Guarrera, Metropolitan audition winner, had been brought from the U.S. by Toscanini) took 32 curtain calls. The maestro himself took twelve, at first grinning shyly, then broadly...
...Authors Karl E. Mundt and Richard M. Nixon both won political triumphs last week. In South Dakota, Mundt won the Republican nomination for the Senate, is an almost certain winner in November. In California, Nixon won both the Republican and Democratic nominations, assuring him of re-election...
Most popular of the contestants swaying among the klieg-lighted diners was pert Jacqueline Donny of France, displaying a smartly cut bathing suit and a perfectly round navel. When the votes were in, Miss France was provisional winner. Observed Miss America '46, putting away her glasses: "Miss France won by a navel...
...winner was cocksure little (135-Ib.) Mauri Rose, at the wheel of a Blue Crown Special, the same car (four cylinders, front-wheel drive, no superchargers) that he won with last year. After averaging a record 119.8 m.p.h., Rose took two laps for insurance. Then he took a couple more. He had his speech all ready for the newsreel cameras when Hollywood's beauteous Barbara Britton tried to kiss him in the winner's cage: "There's a lady I want to kiss first ... I hope you'll understand. We're going to be married...