Word: balboa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ford, a slinky five-foot-niner with a head as smart as his strokes are slick, is the fair-haired boy of Coach Bob Kiphuth's Yale team. Born in Balboa, Canal Zone, he was given swimming lessons at the age of three because his parents, transplanted Illinoisans, wanted him to be more amphibious than they. By the time he was 15 he was picked for a team to represent the Canal Zone in an international swimming meet in South America. Last year, as a student at Mercersburg Academy, he caused a sensation by equaling Weissmuller's record...
...very much surprised to read in TIME for Oct. 20 the Panama story entitled "The Doctor Takes a Trip." You mention "At 10 the Cabinet met in the Balboa police station." Please understand that Balboa is in the Canal Zone and if the Cabinet met in any police station they met in the Panama City police station. If your article was true then you are contradicting Secretary of State Hull's statement that the U.S. Government had nothing to do with the change of Government here in Panama which is absolutely correct...
...TIME erred. If the Panamanian Cabinet which ousted President Arias had met in Balboa-it did not-suspicion of U.S. wire-pulling would have been justified. The Cabinet actually met in the city of Panama...
...Snowball," well - known colored punch-maker of Mt. Auburn Street, received a letter yesterday which demonstrates the true strength of Harvard tradition. The letter was sent by an alumnus named Mr. Haskell, who is a Naval officer stationed at Balboa, Canal Zone. It requested the recipe for a punch to be consumed while listening to the Harvard-Yale football game over the radio...
...next morning he had decided to take over himself, had started a police roundup of Arias' henchmen. At 10 the Cabinet met in the Balboa police station to form a new Government. As President it picked Ernesto Jaén Guardia, who was sworn in at 1 p.m. But after two members of the old Cabinet were arrested, Ernesto decided that he did not choose to rule, and by the end of the afternoon Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia was Panama's boss. All these changes were constitutional...