Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Genial George Allen had no comment on Truman's story. Instead, he helicoptered off to Gettysburg with Ike for a weekend of golf...
While the young couple spent their last unmarried weekend at the Royal Lodge in Windsor with the Queen and Prince Philip, workmen completed the 60-foot arch of roses through which the procession will pass. The 2,500 troops who will line the march rehearsed their duties and boned up on the eleven pages of orders of the day. Just opposite Westminster Abbey rose tier on tier of seats for those willing to pay $15 to $75 for a closeup view. An official tersely admitted that, so far, there is "nothing like a rush" to buy, and advertisements have been...
...last weekend, the Sultan of Shot was not the big show. At the Drake Relays, he left Davis in his dust with a throw of 63 ft. 1¼ in., but saw his meet record clipped by Nieder's 63 ft. 11 ½ in. Strangely mellowed by defeat, O'Brien spoke to Nieder for the first time in the day, said: "Nice going, Bill...
...Kentucky Derby can be sheer folly. The colts are young, and inclined to be spooky. The Derby is their first try at the 1¼-mile distance, and no one can know how they will last it. The field is crowded: there are 13 eligibles for this weekend's Derby. Indeed, the Derby sometimes bears closer resemblance to a free-for-all than a racing classic, with favorites getting jostled out of contention and outsiders grabbing the rail to win. None of which prevents racing followers from betting millions each year on the Derby, and in 1960 as always...
...money for Hearst for years despite a hefty circulation (some 470,000 today), sold out to the Chicago Tribune. Last week the American's proprietors an nounced that they were moving Reutlinger to one side, making him managing editor of the Sunday edition and editor of the new weekend television magazine. His successor as managing editor: Luke P. Carroll, 44, of the New York Herald Tribune. A Trib veteran of 20 years, Carroll rose from reporter to Chicago correspond ent (1944-49), to news, foreign, national and city editor...