Word: womack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Womack Vandercook, 51, the C.I.O. gets a globe-trotting author (most notable of his ten books: Black Majesty, a 1928 bestseller about Haiti's famed King Christophe) and onetime (1940-46) NBC correspondent (TIME, Jan. 10, 1944). His cultured, velvety voice was last heard on a 1952 TV show, Campaigning with Stevenson. Unlike A.F.L.'s Edwards, who swings a crusader's meat ax at "the big-business boys." Vandercook (who will be on ABC's payroll) expects to deliver a quiet "expository commentary'' without a heavy pro-labor slant. "He seemed...
...fortune hunters sadly departed when they learned that Cripple Creek had no geological formations indicating the presence of gold. Only Bob Womack, a cowhand, kept digging for gold in his spare time; he was called "Crazy Bob" for his pains. In January 1891, Crazy Bob struck gold, sold his claim for $500 while drunk celebrating. He died a pauper, but the field he opened up was one of the richest in the world. Out of Cripple Creek's famed mines (Golden Cycle, El Paso, Ajax, Independence, Vindicator, Isabella, Portland) poured a golden flood of more than $500 million...
Outpointed. In Houston, after a domestic brawl, Mrs. John Womack nursed a hurt finger, husband John a broken 1) nose, 2) bone in his right foot, 3) rib, 4) pair of spectacles...