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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca, 17th Marquis de Portago, thirsted for thrills. He found them in speed and sport. He was tempted by any activity tinged with danger, finally decided that the second-to-second uncertainty of auto racing brought him nearest to his heart's desire. When he wheeled his 3.8 liter fire-red Ferrari into the start of Italy's Mille Miglia last week, "Fons" de Portago was a happy man. Perhaps (although none can say) he died...
...Indiana. Sales this year are headed toward $9,700,000. mostly of roses (by far the most popular U.S. flower) but also including such other J. & P. specialties as delphiniums and mums. In the rose business, in which it annually grosses three times the combined sales of its three nearest rivals, J. & P. also leads its field in adapting to changing times. In 1940 it promoted floribunda roses-many full-sized blooms carried candelabra-fashion on a single stem-for small gardeners who want to make the kind of splashy effect with half a dozen rosebushes that estate gardeners...
...five-day ordeal of Frank Brewster, boss of the Teamsters Union's Western Conference, was nearly over. He hunched .. eagerly forward in his chair before the , U.S. Senate's McClellan committee, ready to head for the nearest exit and away from Washington at a moment's notice. : But first, Committee Chairman John MeClellan had a bill to total: the committee's investigation of the Teamsters' West Coast affairs, said Arkansas Democrat McClellan, indicated that $709,420.14 in union funds had been lost, strayed, stolen or was of a "questionable nature." Furthermore, Frank Brewster had signed...
...slobbing starts as Marine Mitchum, smeared with sweat and beard, rolls over the side of a rubber life raft, staggers through the surf to a palm-fringed island and proceeds, with the hearty cooperation of the sound track, to slurp up several gallons of the nearest fresh-water lagoon. The next thing he sees is a nun, and for all the surprise he shows, the audience might think that nuns just sort of naturally came with tropical islands. But Deborah is dramatically startled to see him. "Naow, le's jus' take it easy, ma'am," says Mitchum...
...suggest you applaud the Enterprise's editorial gambits: "Don't move the girls; move the school," and the fingerprinting of all Nevada clergymen. The first we won hands down, and the town of Searchlight dutifully moved the grade school 500 yards from the nearest crib to conform with the law. The latter matter is in flux. But I do suggest that we have more fun, give greater pleasure and outrage to more people and perform a far higher duty to civilization than all the editors of weeklies who are fretted for integration, gambling and their own "good name...