Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There's something especially nice about the choice of Winthrop House's new senior tutor--nice because the House derives its name from John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony three centuries ago, and because this fact is so often overlooked. But no more. Benjamin W. Labaree, the new senior tutor, is that rare individual--a teacher of colonial history; and even more unlikely, his father teaches in the same field...
Unaccountably, It Rolled. Everything seemed normal as Engineer Lloyd F. Wilburn, 63, pulled out of Elizabethport at 9:57, right on schedule, with a wave to Towerman Joe Halliday, and headed east toward Newark Bay and the Jersey Central's 1.4-mile, four-track trestle and drawbridge...
...m.p.h. or more, No. 3314 rolled on through three successive signal lights-three clear warnings that a 300-ft. drawbridge span was open. Then, just short of gaping space, the train was derailed by an automatic safety device, bumped along the ties and plunged 40 ft. down to the bay...
...door of the first coach and, in a welter of lifeless bodies, floated up to sunlight. Lloyd Nelson, 33. of Little Silver, N.J.. a survivor of the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck at Woodbridge, N.J. in 1951 (84 dead), had got a window open before his coach splashed into the bay. From the dangling car some passengers crawled hand over hand up the luggage racks to take rescuing ropes and hands. But Snuffy Stirnweiss died at the bottom of the bay. So did Attorney Fisch. Dead, too, were Engineer Wilburn and Fireman Peter Andrew...
Died. George ("Snuffy") Stirnweiss, 38, American League batting champion in 1945 with a lowly .309 average, infielder (1943-51) for the New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians; in the Jersey Central train wreck at Newark Bay (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...