Word: boardman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meal was nearly over when a convict suddenly appeared in the doorway. No penitent whiner was he. Instead he leveled an automatic, barked, "Hands up!" Warden Holohan was returning from the telephone. His guests saw three more convicts knock him down, crack his skull with their pistol butts. Boardman Atherton addressed the first convict: "If you boys are on the square and promise no shooting I'll go as a hostage, but remember I'm the father of four children...
...Theatre Collection; John L. Lowest '05, Francis Literature; Francis P. Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature; Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, associate professor of Comparative Literature; Milman Parry, assistant professor of Greek and Latin; Arthur S. Pease '02, professor of Latin; Chandler R. Post '04, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts; Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin; Herbert W. Smyth '78, Eliot professor of Greek Literature Emeritus; Taylor Starck, associate professor of German; Arthur F. Whittem '02, associate professor of Romance Languages, and George K. Zipf '24, instructor in German...
...score of 77 brought Robert C. Hunter '36 the qualifying medal, while fifteen other men with cards of 90 or less got into the match play. In the semi-finals, Lynford Lardner, Jr. '36 will play Norman Mendleson '38, and Thomas Boardman '36 will pit himself against Arvin N. Pierce '38. Last year the final match was played in a snowstorm, Alan Pattee, a Freshman, being returned the winner...
...tripled since 1928. A good rodeo performer makes $12,000 a year; the best, more. Possibly the most dangerous sport in the world, it supports 250 performers a year, of whom many graduate to other professions. Onetime performers at Prescott were Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Harold Bell Wright, Russell Boardman, Earl Sande. Will Rogers reached the Ziegfeld Follies and Hollywood by way of the rodeo. Wandering about Times Square last week, wearing broad-brimmed Stetsons and high heels, were half a dozen rodeo performers whose names are as familiar to rodeo enthusiasts as the names of Babe Ruth, Mickey Cochrane...
...official, races have to be finished in five and a half hours. The fourth trial, in flickering airs, lasted longer than five and a half, but when it was over, yachtsmen were less sanguine than they had been about Rainbow. Weetamoe, sailed by Richard Boardman, had beaten her off wind and on over a 34-mile course, by a mile and a half. There was an 18-mile breeze, just the kind of weather Yankee likes, for the fifth race but Skipper Adams went to the Harvard commencement exercises while Rainbow nosed out Weetamoe...