Word: jeffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Jeff D. Milton, 85, oldtime, rootin'-shootin' law enforcer of the Wild West; in Tucson, Ariz. During a career that made a Hollywood horse opera seem tame, Milton was a Texas Ranger, deputy sheriff in once-lawless Apache County, Ariz., police chief of El Paso, a one-man Rio Grande border patrol (from El Paso "to hell & gone"). He once went after three train-robbing desperados, wired back: "Send two coffins and one doctor...
...Dick Bezanson accounted for half of the Crimson scoring us Bezanson poured in five goals in the first half from the corner of the crease after taking Hurley passes. Hurley himself scored once in the second half with the rest of the goals coming on shots by Ned Dewey, Jeff Smith, Hans Estin, and Bob Richards...
Back in form after a midseason slump, Dunster continued its winning ways yesterday afternoon with a 51 to 30 decision over Adams, thus replacing Dudley in the third place slot. Dunster's "Mutt and Jeff" combination proved invincible, six-foot-four-inch John Brunsman caging 15 points while diminutive George Okamura stole the ball time and time again in the Gold Coasters' back court and contributed four baskets on fast breaks. Wheelright aided a losing cause with his 17-point effort...
Well set on the inside track, the Ambassador still had to live down his name. Anti-Americans referred to him as "William" Belt; his paternal grandfather, John Benjamin Belt of Beltsville, Md., had settled in Cuba after serving as Jeff Davis' purchasing agent there during the Civil War. After the 1933 revolution, young Belt became Havana's mayor at 29. In Washington he has worked diligently for bigger sugar quotas and other things good for Cuba. At the U.N. Assembly last fall he attacked the Soviet stand on the veto...
...Grease Paint. Like millions of boys who wanted to be cartoonists when they'grew up, Milt Caniff never missed a day of Mutt & Jeff or Polly and Her Pals. But the Chicago Tribune's prize old political crosshatcher, John T. McCutcheon, was his ideal. Milt's, father took him west in 1916 and nine-year-old Milton worked for a short time as a child extra in two-reel movies. At twelve he created (for family circulation) his first cartoon, something known as Si Plug...