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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Lee Conley Broonzy, the business of crying the blues began when he and his twin sister Lannie were still barefoot kids scuffling in the played-out dirt around their parents' shack near Jackson, Miss. Bill pestered the owner of the general store into giving him a guitar. "Bill could play your name on it," says Lannie. "I swear he could make it talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Best of the Blues | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...spring, it had seemed certain that the veteran starting staff of Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette. Gene Conley, Bob Rush and Bob Buhl would soon put Milwaukee out front. But while the Yankees ran off and out of reach of the rest of the American League by late May. the Braves bumbled along into August without showing championship form. After a fine start, Spahn ran into a temporary slump. Burdette could not manage to win consistently. Conley has yet to win a game. Rush did not finish a game in twelve straight starts. Buhl came up with a shoulder injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youth Saves the Day | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Girouard, Tom Flaherty, and Dick Conley then singled in succession, giving Northeastern an 8-5 lead. The Huskies never threatened again; but the damage had already been done since the varsity never regaind the touch which had produced five runs in the first three innings...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Late-Inning Rally Enables Huskies To Nip Favored Varsity Nine, 8-6 | 5/1/1958 | See Source »

...Harvard School of Education. Other CCA incumbents are Mrs. Pearl K. Wise and former Mayor Edward Crane '35 on the City Council, and Mrs. Catherine Ogden on the School Committee. The CCA, however, has endorsed 13 others, all comparative newcomers to city politics, with the exception of Robert G. Conley, co-ordinator of two Stevenson campaigns, and William Galgay, former 3-term School Committee member...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Elections Feature Bitterness, Comedy | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...some cases, such as that of Robert G. Conley, a candidate for School Committee, the individual has appealed for outside help. Conley has gained the endorsement of the Harvard Joint Committee for Non-Partisan School Appointments, an organization in which the HYDC, The HYRC, and potentially the Eisenhower Club participate. Although the endorsement came only three weeks before election day, the Harvard students will be useful as canvassers and office workers. The CCA, itself, is planning to use the Harvard group to distribute information on election eve and to campaign at the polls on election...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Elections Feature Bitterness, Comedy | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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