Word: auburns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University climaxed nearly four years of tentative negotiations today by offering the Metropolitan Transit Authority what amounts to nearly $4,000,000 for its switching and storage yards and adjoining property between Memorial Drive and Mount Auburn...
Petrarch G. Erasmus '51 died on Mt. Auburn St. after crawling halfway to Stillman Infirmary. With blood pouring from a wound in his chest, the dying section man gasped, "I gave the guy a 'D', so he challenged me to a duel...
...bench-testing in secrecy the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Four years later, he made his first flight tests. His tiny, ungainly gadget, launched from a relative's farm near Auburn. Mass., hardly got off the ground, but it was the true precursor of today's mighty rockets. Three years later, an 11-ft. rocket climbed 90 ft. Its noise attracted the local cops and stirred up so much opposition that Goddard left Massachusetts for thinly populated New Mexico. There his rockets climbed higher and higher. In 1935 one reached the sensational height...
Love & Leave. There, ironically, romance entered Frank's life 13 months ago. Mother Duncan's nurse was slight, auburn-haired Olga Kupczyk, 30, recently of Vancouver, Canada. After Mother Duncan was sent home, Frank and Olga dated. In May Olga was pregnant, and told friends she was in love; in June she and Frank were married. But scarcely had a superior court judge tied the knot than Olga Kupczyk Duncan's mother-in-law trouble began. The newlyweds checked into a Santa Barbara motel for their wedding night. At 1 :30 a.m. Frank had to go home...
Behind the colorless and hollow names of Hattie S., 58, Walter B., 42, and two-year-old Ellen "with auburn hair, greenish eyes, dimples and an impish smile" are shattered, hungry, confused, forsaken, and pained men, women, and infants. Their uncommon glory is to be the dregs of prosperity, the stagnant backwash of our land of freedom and liberty and forever free enterprise...