Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wearing a long-billed flight cap, the President toured the hangar deck, put-putted around on a tractor, climbed up to the island, then went below on another tour to sick bay, engine room, bakery, and finally to a brief stop at the soda fountain.. By mid-afternoon Press Secretary Charley Ross had developed a bad case of foot blisters. Harry Truman was still fresh and going more places...
...servicemen will help propel the Crimson shell. None have seen Varsity service. Rowing number seven will be Bim Chanler, an exartillery captain in the ETO who held down the same spot in the undefeated Freshman team of 1942. Number six is Mike Scully, another Army man, with only a brief informal season behind...
Pennsylvania born Professor McIlwain graduated from the College of New Jersey, an institution which has since degenerated into Princeton University. After a brief fling at law, a career which he found less interesting than the study of legal theory, he re-entered the academic world, first as a prep-school Latin instructor and track coach, then as a history professor at Miami (Ohio), Princeton, and Bowdoin. He came to Harvard in 1911 and in 1926 he received the Eaton Professorship...
...still-life published by the Evening Globe yesterday purported to show the "real" Ibis, posed with what the Lampsters called "the Crimson's prize duck" and a mysterious beer mug. But a brief investigation revealed the two birds to be outsiders put over on the gullible Globe...
...bird's initial appearance was at the Colonial Theatre, where, after a brief word of explanation to the baffled audience as to the nature of the Ibis and the Harvard Lampoon, Blackstone produced the mounted creature from an empty box. The magician's call for photographers indicated that the press had been tipped off to the event...