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...museum has rebuilt three of its galleries, put in new lights, air-conditioned the entire building in anticipation. New Orleans citizens got reproductions of the new treasures on buses, in their gas and electric bills, and the museum expects to double its number of visitors next year. Said Alonzo Lansford, director of the Delgado Museum: "It was a heady experience . . . to be able to point to masterpieces and say, 'I'll take that one and that...
...hounds," they have found many a rare fossil, often misclassified and almost as obscure as if it were still buried in prehistoric shale. Last winter, hoping for just such a find, veteran Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson took time out from a lecture tour to visit the private museum of Alonzo Wesley Hancock, a retired Oregon postman...
...liveliest (and quietest) industrialists. As head of the M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, he presides over a vast business and industrial empire which includes important interests in iron, steel, coal, copper, oil, natural gas, rayon, plastics, shipping and banking. The company was named for Mark Alonzo Hanna, Ohio's great Republican political power, who owned and ran it until he died in 1904. Humphrey resigned from his father's law firm to become general counsel for the Hanna Co. in 1918, when it was an ore and coal business. He was made a partner two years...
...send his son, Alonzo Jr., into the game to try an end run. Stagg refused, and Chicago lost the game, 21-18. Afterwards, Crisler asked Stagg why he had refused. Stagg pointed to an obscure footnote in the rule book: "The committee deprecates the use of a substitute to convey information." Alonzo Jr. had lost his chance to become a football immortal (he never even won his letter) because Old Man Stagg refused to wink at the rule book...
...Time to Reform. In 1946, when Stagg was 84, College of the Pacific retired him once again. Again he refused to quit. He went East to Susquehanna, where he became coach of the offense. Defensive coach: Amos Alonzo Stagg Jr. But every spring, Stagg hops back to California for spring practice at College of the Pacific, where he assists Athletic Director Paul Stagg, another...