Word: winners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back for another tilt at four-term Democratic Governor Dennis J. Roberts, 55, and his well-greased Democratic machine is Providence Attorney Christopher Del Sesto, 51, who almost turned the trick two years ago. After all votes were counted in 1956, Del Sesto was proclaimed winner by a hair-427 votes-only to have the victory torn from his hands by a ruling from the state Supreme Court invalidating 4,954 absentee and shut-in votes. Having sneaked to a fourth term through this legal loophole, Denny Roberts is now plagued by party dissidence and public weariness with his erratic...
...teenager. Last week, in a pleasant change of menu, the grand prize in Pillsbury's annual national baking contest, held in the ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was awarded for a scarcely disguised variation on one of the simplest of all desserts, apple dumplings. The winner, whose spicy apple twists* triumphed over such dishes as golden empire torte spread with chocolate surprise frosting, double date devil's food cake or Golden Gate dessert bars, was Mrs. Don de Vault, 36, wife of a Delaware, Ohio real estate man. Her prize...
...Porto Manacore is fine Adriatic beaches, offshore islands ideal for skin diving and a somnolent landscape of ripening fruit orchards. French Novelist Roger Vailland looks around more sharply, and what he sees is far less pretty In The Law (a Book of the Month Club selection and 1957 winner of France's famed Prix Goncourt), he coolly examines a hand-picked cast of Manacoreans and discovers without surprise that their lives are governed by poverty, cynicism and naked power. A sometime Communist Author Vailland searches out what suits his ideological intent, but The Law also happens to be full...
Some people feel that having fun is not enough justification for a world's fair. On one ship returning to the States, students hotly debated whether the Expo was "A Waste or Winner...
...tomorrow's second game, Burdette, the Yankee-killer of '57 will try to make it two in a row for the Braves. The 20-game winner will be opposed by another right hander, Bob Turley. Turley was the Yanks big winner with a 21-7 season...