Word: williams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jubilant Democrats, to whom Millikin ranks only slightly below Ohio's Robert Taft on the list of targets for 1950, were sure they could beat him with either of two candidates. One was Colorado Governor William Lee Knous (rhymes with mouse), a lanky, homespun former mining-camp lawyer. If Knous entered the race, the conservative, Republican-tinged Denver Post reported last week (and if the results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with...
...little town of Stuart, Fla., New York's ailing Mayor William O'Dwyer ended two months of speculation, rumors and denials by getting a license to marry Texas-born brunette Divorcee Elizabeth Sloan Simpson, 33, onetime model and more recently a department-store stylist. Miss Simpson chose a plain navy-blue suit for the ceremony this week. The couple planned to honeymoon aboard Industrial Engineer H. G. Matthews' yacht, Almar II, after a while head for Manhattan's Gracie Mansion, home of New York's mayors...
Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 (William Kapell, pianist, with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). One of Prokofiev's earlier and better works; powerful and percussive, it is just right for hammer-handed young (27) Pianist Kapell. Recording: excellent...
...International Information, which wrote the scripts and did the translating, and of 33-year-old M. Philip Copp, a former Manhattan art agent who underbid comic-book publishers for the $24,000 contract. To do the eight four-page, black & white biographies, Copp hired Artists Bruno Premiani and William Draut, two veterans of Wild West comics...
...procession of the Lord was marching through Sheffield, England. At its head was a brass band blaring hymns from atop a wagon; next, on a white horse, came the onetime champion wrestler of Northumberland, now a convert to God. After him in a carriage rode the Generals William and Catherine Booth, and behind marched the uniformed soldiers of their Salvation Army. Then the Devil attacked...