Ascot racing spectacle thrills British bettors and royals
Ascot opens its four day meeting with the Royal Enclosure as Queen Elizabeth II’s family and 15,000 bookmakers celebrate a tradition stretching back to 1711. The grand event draws VIPs, ambassadors, and tourists who chase entry badges, wear hats or gray morning dress, and watch six races amid betting, pomp, and persistent drizzle.
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Ascot
England
NEA
Liza Doolittle
Britain
London
Royal Enclosure
Churchill Downs
Letherby
Christopher
Queen Anne
Heath
Buckingham Palace
Silver Ring
North Sea
Liza
Lum and Abner star Norris Goff dies at 72
Norris Goff known as Abner on the Lum and Abner radio show died after a stroke in Palm Desert California. He was 72, lived near Palm Springs, and had entered Eisenhower Medical Center earlier. Goff and partner Chet Lauck created the show in 1931, moved to Hollywood in 1937, and appeared in five films. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth a son Gary a daughter Gretchen Dooley and three grandchildren. Lauck remains in retirement in Hot Springs Arkansas.
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Palm Desert
Calif
UPI
Norris Goff
Abner
Lum
Goff
Palm Springs
Eisenhower Medical Center
Lum and
Amos
Andy
Chet Lauck
KTHS
Hot Springs
Ark
Chicago
Lauck
Hollywood
Washington
Cove, Ark
Mena
Tauck
Tuffy
Elizabeth
Gary
Gretchen Dooley
Hauck
Ethics in U S Senate by Steve Gerstel
Eleven years ago Senator John C Stennis told Senator Thomas J Dodd the news was not all good after the Ethics Committee voted to recommend censure. The reconstituted Ethics Committee now opens preliminary probes into Senator Herman Talmadge and Senator Edward Brooke amid revelations from divorce cases. Talmadge admits receiving small cash gifts and misreporting campaign expenditures, while Brooke backs a loan misstatement in divorce proceedings.
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Steve Gerstel
Washington
UPI
John C. Stennis
Stennis
Thomas J. Dodd
Connecticut
Dodd
Ethics Committee
Tom
Senate
Ethics
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Sen
Edward Brooke
Massachusetts
Talmadge
Brooke
Adlai Stevenson
D-Nl
Stevenson
Georgia Democrat
Boston Globe
Sion
National spelling bee narrows field to twelve
Thirty-seven boys and 47 girls were eliminated on the first day as 12-year-old Cara Diaconoff of Bloomington Indiana and Patrick Lafferty Jr of Pearland Texas survived alongside ten other boys and ten other girls. Spellers faced hard words like vitreous congeal and trichinosis as the 51st annual contest proceeds at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington with a $1,000 prize for the champion.
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Washington
UPI
Cara Diaconoff
Bloomington
Ind
Delicatessen
Patrick Lafferty Jr
Pearland
Texas
NASA
Cara
Patrick
Hawse
Conacaste
Mayflower
Tom
Cher
Littleton
Phalanx
Excelsior
Vermeil
Puerto Rico
Mexico
Virgin Islands
Scripps-Howard
Spelling Bee
Andrew Rappe
Randolph
N.J
Oppugn
Herman Miller
Harrodsburg, Ky
Sheryl Santille
Mt. Prospect
Ill
Neighbors recall a man who naps between two grills
A local anecdote describes a neighbor who can sleep with his head on one barbecue grill and his feet on another, illustrating a humorous, exaggerated tale about a peculiar sleeping habit.
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Grundy
U.S. Senate
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Lodi
Ohio
Carter Winer
Joliet
FDIC
Mann's
Old Stage Road
Seneca
Cabinet Village
Liberty
Morris
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