Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feathered Tom. The parade of White House callers included all sorts of men on all sorts of missions: labor leaders, turkey growers, Senators, foreign diplomats, politicians, old friends, ax-grinding congressmen, lobbying mayors and gift-bearing citizens. A delegation from Truman, Minnesota (which had voted against him, 267 to 241) dropped in to invite the President to attend the town's 50th anniversary...
...delegation of turkey growers presented him with two turkeys for his Christmas dinner in Independence this week. When they uncrated the big, bronze, 40-lb. Minnesota bird and the bred-down ("apartment size") 14-lb. white Beltsville turkey on his office porch, a photographer asked the President to chuck one under the chin. He did-and the white turkey got flapping mad. "That's one tom that got into the White House," beamed a bystander, "and he's a turkey." The President grinned...
Harvard Club of Milkwaukee, A. William Asmuth, Jr, '38, 735 North Water st,; Harvard Club of Minnesota, William K. Headley '41, 1183 Ashland ave,; St. Paul, Minnesota; Harvard Club of New Canaan, David C. Marvin...
...Minnesota's 250-lb. Tackle Leo Nomellini, amateur boogie-woogie pianist and short-order cook who never played football in high school. Extremely fast for his weight, Leo was the star of the line that held Michigan's great offense to 22 yards net gain by rushing. The other lineman was Penn's 220-lb. Center Chuck Bednarik, alias The Clutch, a bear for handing out punishment...
Europe, vacationing on private islands in Minnesota lakes and sailing the inland waterways aboard their own yachts. All they have to do is to be ready when the time comes to answer some such question as: "How old was Julius Caesar when he married the daughter of Lucius Cinna?" (Answer...