Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Same as Chemistry. Time after time, Georgia-born Bill Spivey grabbed off Kansas passes intended for Lovellette. Once he stole the ball right out of the Kansan's hands, dribbled the length of the floor to score. By half time, Spivey had 14 points to Lovellette's four and Kentucky led Kansas 28-12. The baffled Lovellette fouled out in the third quarter, after being held to ten points by Spivey's glue-like guarding. Spivey himself had scored 22 points (high for the game). When Lovellette went out, Rupp took out Spivey too ("We wanted their...
...Rickey urged the nation to keep its morale high with baseball); drama is covered by Comic Abe Burrows (he didn't like the Broadway revue Bless You All-see THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie). Hear It Now ends with a four-to ten-minute "closeup" (last week's subject: General Douglas MacArthur...
...Olive Anne Mellor, a good-looking, 22-year-old Kansas farm girl, took a job as secretary to Planemaker Walter Beech, who had a precarious foothold in the aircraft business. Olive was quickly promoted to receptionist, bill collector and paymaster. In 1930 she married the boss. She helped him form Beech Aircraft and helped nurse their plane-manufacturing company along. Thus, when Walter Beech died last month, there was no trouble finding someone to fill his job. Last week O. A. Beech was elected president and chief executive officer of Beech Aircraft Corp...
...sprightly 1939 spoof of Communists and the U.S.S.R., could no longer be seen. The movie had packed two of the city's theaters for weeks. But when the Russians took their turn at policing Vienna's international district, they "suggested" that it was time to change the bill...
...while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing the Witchcraft...