Word: asa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accounting filed in Manhattan's Surrogate Court listed the net estate left by the late Mammy Singer Al Jolson at $2,366,844. Among the bequests: trust funds of $1,000,000 for Erie, his fourth wife; $500,000 each to their adopted children Asa and Alicia; and $10,000 for Ethel Delmar, his second wife...
...Paulo's industry got a running start from one of the greatest engineering feats on earth. The city stands near the Atlantic brink of a broad plateau whose rivers drain away to the west and finally to the sea 1,000 miles away in Argentina. In 1922, Asa Billings, an Omaha-born, Harvard-educated engineer for Sáo Paulo's Canadian-owned power company, got the idea of damming these rivers and guiding their waters back over the 2,400-ft. palisades to the Atlantic. Magnificently successful, Billings' complex of tunnels, pumps, penstocks and turbines...
Meanwhile, Asa Bushnell, Chairman of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, has proposed that all forms of recruiting by college coaches and all subsidization of athletes solely for athletic purposes for a vote at the Conference's meeting on Friday...
...seven point reform plan for athletics, proposed by the N.C.A.C. commissioner, Asa S. Busknell, after the most disastrous year of collegiate sports in decades, seeks to rebuild in a more severe form the Sanity Code which the National Collegiate Athletic Association dropped last winter...
American Forum of the Air (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). "Too Much Football?" Speakers: the Eastern College Athletic Conference's Commissioner Asa Bushnell, George Washington University's Coach J. H. Rowland, ex-Footballers Arthur Bergman (Notre Dame) and La Vern Dilweg (Green Bay Packers...