Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood. 2. The history of baseball. 3. A balloon ascension. 4. Postwar Japan under MacArthur's leadership. 5. The Berlin airlift and postwar Germany...
...plus editorials in other newspapers unanimously rebuking the legislators for their attitude, the committee backed down, voted to forget about prosecution of Editor Fritchey and Publisher Stern. The most disappointed man in the committee room was undoubtedly Senator A. O. Rappelet. Legislative Clown Rappelet had brought along a huge balloon, a ball and four plastic fish, but the chairman never gave him the floor or the chance to put on his trained-seal...
...balloonist, with Captains Albert Stevens and Orvil Anderson (now an Air Force major general), he took a balloon 60,613 feet into the stratosphere before a rip in the fabric sent the bag plummeting earthward. The three bailed out -Kepner at 500 feet. Then Bill Kepner moved on to airplanes. In World War II he wore a general's stars, but frequently left his desk to fly combat missions. He was chief of the hard-flying Eighth Air Force Fighter Command, a principal Allied weapon in the destruction of the German Luftwa...
Entertainment during the course of the afternoon also included three-legged and balloon races...
Iced lemonade but no Wellesley kisses greeted John H. Hart '52 yesterday morning when he won the Outing Club's annual bike race in balloon tires and 48 minutes...