Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pretty Prize. Len Dawson is the first to admit that no man really wins ball games all by himself. (Proof of Purdue's powerful line is the fact that Len had to "eat the ball" only once the first 29 times he dropped back to pass.) But even as a high-school student in Alliance, Ohio, Len had a well-developed knack of winning all the athletic honors in sight. He was captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams; as a senior quarterback, he completed 100 out of 200 passes for a school record of 1,615 yards...
...Along a 4,000-mile perimeter." says U.S. General Alfred M. Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, "we have developed a shield." But it is not enough. To fill the gap in the shield German reinforcements are indispensable. Last week in London, the allies agreed to admit West Germany as NATO's 15th member...
...Legend. Brando's closest friends admit that he often needs a shave, and that regardless of the company he is in, he belches or scratches as the need arises. Although he now makes as much as $200,000 a picture, he is often without matching trousers and jacket; until very recently he preferred blue jeans for all social gatherings. The day he arrived in Hollywood, Marlon honored the occasion by dressing up in his only suit, but somehow failed to notice that the trousers had a hole in the knee and a slit in the seat, through which...
Died. George W. Armstrong, 88, multimillionaire Southern oilman who offered in 1949 to give Mississippi's struggling little Jefferson Military College $50 million in oil lands if it would teach white supremacy, admit only white Christians, got turned down by the school, which then had no trouble raising an unrestricted $100,000 from less prejudiced philanthropists; in Natchez, Miss...
...control over its own admissions; the central admissions office passes on admission of students to the Arts college, but it acts mainly as a clearing house for applications to the other schools, with no final power of decision over them. Consequently considerable responsibility rests with these other divisions to admit students who have shown by their previous records that they have the ability and inclination to take varied courses as well as skills within their own fields.6Cornell students in full dress Ivy League uniform at Cornell's Statler Hotel Not all Cornell men ordinarily dress quite so formally. Grey fiannel...