Word: 58th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Bill McCurdy planned the meet perfectly. He fooled the Blue in event after event, and had his team at its peak for the 58th annual meet. Despite miserable weather conditions which flooded the stadium and the track, the Crimson was first in nine individual events as well as the mile relay...
...assigned to the trip met at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, then headed out for Long Island with the Secret Service in charge. Ike's Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson strolled slowly out of the Waldorf-Astoria without any luggage, took a cab to the southeast corner of 58th Street and Fifth Avenue. He waited only a moment before a sedan picked him up and whisked him toward Mitchel Field. There crewmen worked rapidly around two Constellations...
...easy air of an old-fashioned family reunion surrounded the 58th floor of a Wall Street skyscraper last week. There, stockholders of Atlas Corp., at the first annual meeting ever held in Manhattan,† ate ham sandwiches from a nearby buffet...
...Icicle" was first discussed, few Air Force people besides Lieut. Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher had any real enthusiasm for it; the idea of a weather station floating lazily through the Arctic Ocean on a huge island of ice seemed just too fanciful. But Joe Fletcher, then C.O. of the 58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron at Fairbanks, Alaska, kept wheedling and nagging at his superiors. Last week Fletcher's party finally fought their way on to the ice island some 100 miles from the North Pole. With a double-thickness tent, a month's rations, primus stoves and a minimum...
...next problem was to get the 58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron to drop the pole from one of its B-29s on the drifting ice covering the North Pole. No, said Brigadier General Donald Smith. Stan's pole was too big for the 58th's bomb bays, which were filled with long-range gas tanks. But word got around. A Fairbanks radio commentator known as "North Pole Nelly" suggested that Santa Claus letters from Alaskan kids could be tossed out with the pole. Air Force wives were enthusiastic. Even General Smith's wife pleaded for Stan...