Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...letter came home to roost last week. Republican Congressman W. Kingsland ("Dear King") Macy, to whom it was written, had spread copies of it around, in hopes that it would embarrass Tom Dewey (TIME, Oct. 23). It didn't; it was King Macy who got hurt. When the final count was in, Macy had been beaten, by 126 votes, by Democrat-Liberal Ernest Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher. Macy, running for his third term in the House, angrily demanded a recount. It was the first time in 36 years that the district had failed to elect a Republican Congressman. Dewey...
This is the final act of a tawdry drama played to the music of a jazz band last week in the Rose Room dance hall in Oakland, Calif. It shows a taxi dancer who was shot as she danced, and slumped to the floor, dying. Dark-haired Violet Watson, 35, wife of an Air Force sergeant, had been dancing for two hours with a 56-year-old steady customer who had bought a fat roll of tickets. Another taxi dancer overheard them quarreling: the man begged Violet to run away with him. When she refused, he fired a pistol from...
...lull in the ground action went on for four days, except for sputtering local fights. After chewing up seven of the nine Chinese regiments which had surrounded them, the marines were in sight of Changjin reservoir. The final crust of enemy resistance in that area was broken by fierce Allied air attacks with rockets and jellied gasoline. Within a few miles of the reservoir, the marines sat down. All four of the Changjin power plants were in their hands...
...turned, then came in for a landing. Half an hour later, an ambulance drove up, opened its doors. From the ambulance Maurice Thorez, France's Communist boss, reclining on a litter, his feet in bedroom slippers, was carried to the aircraft to start what may be his final pilgrimage to Moscow. He said goodbyes to the bigwigs of French Communism: Jacques Duclos, looking like the tubby mayor of a little French town; Andre Marty, his fanatic face wearing an uncommonly benign look; hard-boiled Red Labor Chief Benoit Frachon in a green raincoat...
Twisting, churning and pounding through Iowa State's line and around the ends, big (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) Halfback Bright ran for four touchdowns, one of them a 71-yard sprint, passed to End Tom Bienemann for a fifth. Final score: Drake...