Word: boing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alvin Nugent ("Bo") McMillin, 53, All-America backfield man and for 14 years coach at the University of Indiana; of a heart attack induced by cancer; in Bloomington, Ind. Texas-born "Bo" won fame in 1921 as quarterback of little Centre College's "Praying Colonels." In 1945, he coached his "pore little boys" at Indiana to their only Western Big Ten football championship...
With the shrill blast of a bo'sun's call, the 42nd annual National Motor Boat Show was opened in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week, and the first of some 250,000 sailors and would-be sailors were "piped aboard." Biggest news at the show this year are mass-produced, prefabricated "kit-boats," which an amateur boatbuilder can put to gether for as little as 50% of the cost of buying a finished boat. Completely precut, right down to drilled holes and fitted joints, the kit-boats range in size from an 8-ft. pram...
Shortly after dawn, seven men in a guarded room in Washington's Department of Agriculture building crowded around a large metal bo., with two heavy padlocks. One man opened the first lock, another the second. Then for almost five hours, they pulled sealed envelopes from the box, tore them open, and carefully tabulated reports from farmers all over the U.S. A few minutes before n, the guards unlocked the doors, admitted Agriculture Secretary Charlie Brannan. Once he had examined the totals, signed his name and marched out again, the doors were thrown open. In came a dozen reporters...
...studio we were met by five "executives" whose duty it was to see that the four guests would understand what was expected of them. "I wouldn't want you people to be embarrassed," a pipe-smoking man who introduced himself as Bo Bernstein said. Mr. Bernstein, it turned out, represented the advertising agency that was running the show. This connection with the moneyed interests of the program made him the head man. Bernstein pointed out a colleague, named Harvey Cushing, who explained our part to us. "Nothing to it," he said, "all we want you to do this half hour...
...half-century" last year when this Yale game was considered at the time, of far greater import. But perhaps in the long run it is only right that the Centre game should stand out above all as the "darkest hour" for the Crimson as a national power. When Bo McMillan scored the game's only touchdown on a 32 yard dash, he ended more than a five-year streak which included a Rose Bowl victory. He had unwittingly written finis to the scourge of the nation's gridirons. Harvard was to rise to the top again at times...