Word: bascom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bascom Hill, students emerging from a late class skidded and skated on the icy path, at first accidentally, then for fun. In Slichter Hall, the modern new men's dorm, a bunch of ex-G.I.s played an endless card game called Schafskopf. In the Rathskellar (see cut) of the $2,650,000 Memorial Union, one of the few places on any U.S. campus where 3.2 beer is sold, the jukebox blared Slow Boat to China. A waiter deftly scooped the head off three beers with one flick; a lone engineer, studying in a corner, made a quick calculation...
FRANKLIN B. BASCOM...
...lack of music, trumpeting and general fanfare became the subject of official notice today. C. Bascom Slemp, national committeeman from Virginia, broke in on a conference of the Hoover board of strategy today to suggest that something be done. 'Give 'em music,' Slemp pleaded, 'and they'll forget the depression...
...word about the past. He had even burned all his records (TIME, July 14). But in the long run he could not resist the temptation to join the long line of Franklin Roosevelt's old intimates in the writing of memoirs.* With Garner's blessing, Washington Correspondent Bascom N. Timmons, a crony of his Washington days, drew on his own notes and memory, started the ex-Vice President's story last week in Collier's. Some milk and thorns from Cactus Jack...
...Bascom Timmons could afford to lose his $18,000 job-since he makes around $80,000 a year from 21 other papers-but he had been a charter member of the Sun's staff and had set up its capital bureau...