Word: baton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capt. Bob Rittenburg, who had previously reached the finals of the 45 yard high hurdles along with Joel Cohen, led off for the Crimson and handed the baton to Dave Alpers with a three-yard lead. Unofficially running the fastest quarter of 49.6, Alpers increased the lead to seven yards...
...Davis Cup Star Hamilton F. Richardson, 21, of Baton Rouge, for his tennis triumphs despite the handicap of diabetes (TIME...
...years ago to deliver a commencement address and was so struck by what she saw that she is still there: a California businessman who explained how a $9,000 bequest left to his family by a longtime Negro servant was turned over to Jones; the carpenter (now a Baton Rouge contractor) who turned the sheep pen into Jones's first schoolroom. At the program's end, Edwards explained that the school was crippled by its lack of an endowment and asked his viewers to mail $1 each to Educator Jones at Piney Woods, Miss. At week...
Also a Cure for Recession. As administrator of the 160-bed Miners' Hospital in Spangler, Pa. (pop. 3,200), Booster Haluska castigated the hospital staff ("slaughterers") for not adopting the tonic. Then he staged a "Hoxsey Day," with a parade, baton-twirling high-school girls, and a speech by Hoxsey, up from Dallas for the occasion. Hoxsey won over miners and businessmen with talk of the wealth that a Hoxsey clinic would bring to Spangler and nearby Portage, both badly hit by the recession in the coal-mining industry. Later Haluska suggested that the Miners' Hospital...
Died. Joseph E. Ransdell, 95, oldest ex-member of the U.S. Senate (TIME, May 31), Democratic Congressman (1899-1913) and Senator from Louisiana (1913-1931) until Huey Long decided in 1930 that he would rather serve the nation from Washington than from Baton Rouge; after long illness; in Lake Providence...