Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...80th lap, in front of the grandstand, two cars traveling at 50 m.p.h. locked wheels. A third car, trying to avoid them, caromed into a fourth. Before the crowd could let out a collective scream, 19 cars had piled up (see cut). Eight of the drivers were rushed to a hospital. None died...
Typical of Louis A. Johnson is the fact that when he was mustered out of the army in 1919, (he was a captain, 80th Infantry Division, A.E.F.), he had the nerve to write a letter to the then Chief of Staff, detailing what was wrong with the army and what to do about it. Fresh out of the University of Virginia (where he was champion wrestler and orator) he hung out his law shingle at Clarksburg, W. Va., in 1912. By 1917, he was Democratic floor leader of the State's House of Delegates, and was thinking of running...
Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, 58, went walking on the beach at Skagen with her two fox terriers. When a mongrel attacked the terriers, the Queen attacked the mongrel, was so severely bitten she feared she could not go to King Gustav V of Sweden's 80th birthday party...
Last week alumni sat down to dinners in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco., Minneapolis, Detroit, Princeton and New Haven to celebrate the 80th anniversary of their remarkable preparatory school. In Chicago they heard the school highly praised by University of Chicago's hard- to-please President Robert Maynard Hutchins. Little Lake Forest Academy (180 students), in a swank Chicago suburb, is remarkable not for its plant (valued at only $750,000) or ivied tradition (although it is one of the oldest prep schools in the Midwest) but for its long, angular headmaster, John Wayne ("Big Dick") Richards. Major reason...
Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Harvard's legendary teacher of rhetoric, plans no special observance on his anniversary, just a few friends in for the evening to talk. He wants no fuss over his birthday, preferring to wait until his 80th...