Word: austin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nebraska team that had dropped five straight. Georgia Tech's prospects were punctured by Alabama 17-8. Overrated Mississippi blew an 18-16 decision to punchless Tennessee. Holy Cross, rated tops in New England, took a fearsome 32-0 shellacking from Penn State, and Rutgers (with Bill Austin injured) had its hopes for its first unbeaten season in history smashed by the Quantico Marines...
...Bill Austin (Rutgers) was just another promising football player when he graduated from Scotch Plains (N.J.) high school, but blossomed under the Rutgers single wing into a one-man wrecking crew. Apparently nothing more than a straightaway runner, he has deceptive change of pace, is the nation's second leading major college scorer (72 points), has gained 663 yds. rushing, 284 more passing, despite injuries, yet is notably detached for a big-time star. Says Austin: "At Rutgers football has been a part of college, not college a part of football. I wouldn't have wanted...
...notable changing of the Presbyterian guard was announced last week. President John A. Mackay (rhymes with sky) of Princeton Theological Seminary retires automatically next summer at the age of 70; replacing him in the fall will be Dr. James Illey McCord, 38, dean and professor of systematic theolegy at Austin (Texas) Presbyterian Theological Seminary...
...create new problems--and here is where the gods came in. In its attempt to carry Eliza Doolittle across the stage, the taxi stalled and left the actors and the audience in a prolonged embarrassment that was relieved only by the emergence of two stage hands who pushed the Austin on its weary way. The actors, and especially the taxi driver, George Bishop, heroically covered up this unavoidable accident, but the outcome merely indicated a transferral of emphasis from Shaw to Wellesley. This in turn was followed by a totally extraneous pantomine in which Eliza retired for the night...
...Khrushchev himself made a jet flight to Peking to talk things over with Comrade Mao, who had given Soviet summit maneuverings full endorsement-but had been noticeably cool about having the talks under Security Council auspices, where Nationalist China sits-especially as Red China has never succeeded, as Warren Austin once said, in shooting its way into...