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...Soto to Tittiwee. Beale Street was a midway of dives, "conjure" doctors, fortune tellers, pawnshops and gambling joints. Colorful riverboat characters jostled streetwalkers, dope peddlers and bug-eyed farm kids who filled it from the De Soto dock* (on the Wolf River just before it joins the Mississippi) to the other end at East Street, a mile away. On Saturday nights the clatter of ragtime music mingled with the wail of ambulances. Its leading citizens have been as bizarre as Beale Street itself: "River George," a giant roustabout of bloody fame; "Tittiwee" and "Black Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall...
...Products Division. Industrial Designer George W. Walker, who designed Ford's pace-setting 1949 model, has been named vice president in charge of styling, responsible for producing the new series to compete with Chrysler, Oldsmobile and Buick in the $3,100 to $3,500 price range, midway between Ford's most expensive Mercury and its cheapest Lincoln...
...wartime fleet commander, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance crossed the Pacific, from Midway to Saipan to Okinawa, the hard way. In 1952 he crossed it with ease to become U.S. Ambassador at Manila, but he soon found that his political duties were almost as exacting as running a fleet. After three highly successful years of extending his country's benevolent paternalism to the Philippines, while deftly avoiding any appearance of internal meddling, Ambassador Spruance, 68, was ready to retire. Last week, the White House announced his successor: Michigan's ex-Senator Homer Ferguson...
...Yale freshmen scored both their goals within 15 seconds of each other midway through the third period. The Crimson retailated with there more in the space of 37 seconds...
Wigg started slowly in last night's game, and Straus went ahead, 11 to 6, midway in the first half. Rebounding put Straus ahead, but Wigg came back on two side push shots by Jack Bitzer, and a lay-up and foul by Dwan to lead, 13 to 11. Straus tied the score at 13 to 13 on Charley Atkinson's lay-up, but Wigg soon went ahead, where it stayed, holding Straus even in the second half after a 23-16 halftime lead...