Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frederic Ely Williamson, 68, onetime clerk who rose to be President of the N.Y. Central Railroad (from 1932 until his retirement last September), director of more than 50 U.S. railroads, 1936 winner of the Montclair Yale Club's silver bowl to the Yaleman "who has made his 'Y' in life"; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Angeles, until recent years, a strike-ridden city. It also kept the city open-shop, helped Chandler at tract the aircraft and other industries. He promoted vast Los Angeles real-estate developments, wide boulevards, Hollywood, the $60,000,000 artificial harbor at San Pedro, the Coliseum and Hollywood Bowl. Spreading his power and empire through out the Southwest, he became one of the nation's biggest landowners, one of the West's richest and most influential men. The Times (which has been actively managed since 1941 by his suave, able son Norman, 45) remained conservative...
...Southern California, the best bet on the West Coast, had eight lettermen from its 1944 Rose Bowl championship team...
...Coach Henry Frnka (rhymes with Sanka), who nursed Tulsa into three Bowl games (Sun, 1942; Sugar, '43 and '44), was not surprised to find that his gang of yearlings was big and promising. He hoped to rate a fourth Bowl...
Wellesley Dance--Among the appealing invitations issued to us was the one coming from Wellesley College. Under the efficient management of Rod Willoughby, transportation via chartered city bus was arranged and a load of fifty-four singing midshipmen rode out. Held at Severance Hall, the canned music and punch bowl vied with the terrace walk in popularity...