Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group was a mixture of scientific and industrial talent. Chairman was David E. Lilienthal, head of TVA. The members, besides Dr. Oppenheimer, were Chester I. Barnard, president of New Jersey Bell Telephone Co.; Dr. Charles Allen Thomas, vice president of Monsanto Chemical Co.; Harry A. Winne, G.E.'s vice president in charge of engineering. The eldest member was Mr. Barnard, 59; the youngest, Dr. Oppenheimer...
...tall boys had run away with basketball. When they could simply dunk the ball into a 10-ft.-high basket, what chance did a little fellow have, who had to shoot? Basketball's No. 1 thinker, Coach Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen of the University of Kansas, who had been turning the matter over in his mind for ten years, last week had a chance to try his remedy. The remedy: raise the baskets...
...skyscraping (average: 6 ft. 5 in.) New Mexico School of Mines team played against a team of comparative shorties (average: 5 ft. 11 in.), Drury College from Missouri. The higher hoops didn't work out quite the way Phog Allen expected. Sure enough, the big boys could dunk no more and had to shoot-but the little fellows had to shoot even higher. The biggies won easily. Chief troublemaker was basketball's tallest player, New Mexico's 7 ft. 1 in. Elmore Morgenthaler, who calmly tossed 41 points...
Morgenthaler thought that the higher baskets gave beanpoles like himself more of a break than ever. Said he: "There is more space under the goals . . . I didn't have to contend with little guys running under my legs and grabbing the ball. I sure hope Allen's idea goes over." The smaller Drury squad was unanimous in hoping that it didn...
...prosperity. Not until depression and the rise of Populism (whose grievances and politics were later to find expression in Roosevelt I's Square Deal and Roosevelt II's New Deal) did Willie begin to brood upon the other half at all. By then Willie had become William Allen White, owner and editor of the Emporia Gazette, which he was to make the loudest small-town editorial voice of the U.S. When Populists roughed up dudish Editor White on the street, he reacted in an editorial broadside, What's the Matter with Kansas? His answer: Populism. The editorial...