Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago last week, Northwestern University's Dr. Paul Witty credited Quiz Kids with having "erased any idea that the gifted child is usually a peculiar, eccentric misfit." He was speaking to a peculiarly receptive audience: some 235 past and present Quiz Kids who were gathered to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the program's first appearance on the air. Some of the earliest Quiz Kids are now parents (one has three children). So far, the grown-up prodigies have met none of the dire fates that are often predicted for precocious sprouts: not one has cracked up mentally...
...life of Vienna still centers around the 800-year-old Cathedral of St. Stephen. The Viennese call it, familiarly, Stefanskirche-Stephen's Church. Since the war, when its roof was wrecked in the siege of Vienna, they have worked as hard to repair Stefanskirche as their 12th century forefathers did to build it. In six years workmen, including free labor volunteers, contributed 1,500,000 hours to its repair. New tiles to cover the slate roof were bought by public subscription (250,000 tiles at 5 Austrian shillings-about 20?-a tile). The entire job cost the people...
Saturday's win was the 12th Compton Cup triumph for Harvard crews in 13 races. Princeton won the Cup last season on the Charles. Olympic contenders Navy and Penn, next week's Crimson opponents, have also beaten Princeton, but neither of them as decisively as Harvard. Navy's two-length win over the Tigers was with a full sprint last weekend, while Harvard needed no sprint to win by the same margin. Navy, however, turned in an astonishing 8:27 time over a mile and three-quarters downstream course in beating Wisconsin on the Severn River the weekend. The record...
Sharing the honors with their heavier compatriots, the lightweight varsity crew recaptured the Goldthwait Cup, absent since '4S, as they won over Yale and Princeton in Saturday's Tigertown regatta. The victory marks the 12th time Harvard has held the cup, compared to Yale's nine and Princeton...
Surrender. In January 1951, a Philippine Army patrol in a brush with a Huk band found a blood-stained musette bag containing Pomeroy's passport and some papers in his handwriting. Last week, in rugged mountains near the border of Bulacan and Quezon Provinces, the Philippine 12th Battalion Combat team surprised a camp of 20 Huk guerrillas. Three of the Huks were killed, several of the guerrillas surrendered. Among the captured was William J. Pomeroy...