Word: andrew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of his toughness during the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson was nicknamed "Old Hickory" by his soldiers. Last week, a specialist in reconstructing diagnoses of historical figures reported that he rated the title. By the time it was conferred on him, Old Hickory, 46, had had smallpox, osteomyelitis, malaria, dysentery, rheumatism and half a dozen other assorted diseases; in his chest was a dueler's bullet that was to plague him until he died...
...Andrew Adie Hunter '51, will be manager of the varsity hockey team next year, John Ingram, hockey team manager, announced yesterday. He is replacing Ingram...
Five Times & Out. At 7:30 on the morning of Jan. 8, 1947, three men padded up the steps of Andy Hintz's Greenwich Village apartment. Dunn was one of them. The second was Andrew ("Squint") Sheridan, his myopic triggerman, who said he had no more trouble taking a life than ordering a cup of coffee. The third was Daniel ("Danny Brooks") Gentile, a washed-up club-fighter who ran some of Dunn's bookie concessions. They got Andy Hintz coming downstairs from the third floor. Squint's gun clicked and missed. Then the Cockeye coolly pumped...
Other Harvard men who placed were: Pat McCormick who arrived fifth in the 45-yard hurdles; Andrew Lockett tied with Andrew Kirk of Penn for fifth in the pole vault at 12 feet, 6 inches; Robert Forsyth finished third in the 35-pound weight throw with a 53 feet, 11 1/2 inch toss; and Howard Reed placed fourth with a heave of 51 feet 5 7/8 inches; Donald Trimble finished fifth in the shotput with a throw of 48 feet, 9 inches; David Carter jumped 22 feet, 6 inches to place third in the broad jump; and John Harrigan...
...Publisher William Block and Editor Andrew Bernhard were dead set to make the Post-Gazette one of the two, if that was the way it had to be. Young (33), Yale-educated Bill Block inherited the paper from his father, the late Paul Block, in 1941.* He has been trying to cut its ties to the Republican Party and make it an "independent" paper ever since. Bernhard is a calm, competent veteran who came up the hard...