Word: buckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...definite plans would be reached before later this spring after he has conferred more with Paul H. Buck, Director of the University Library, and other officials, McNiff stated...
Most Southern news executives have adopted a buck-passing rule of thumb: When in doubt about a racial story, use the press-association copy. For example, in the Autherine Lucy riots, papers in nearby Birmingham were the only out-of-town dailies in the South to send their own staffers to Tuscaloosa to cover the story. Sometimes papers lean on the wire services for racial news even in their own areas. When one major daily recently got tips of forthcoming antisegregation statements by religious leaders, it passed the word along quietly to a wire service instead of going after...
...women; the Smoker moved to Memorial Hall to accomodate Gertrude Nieson and her bevy of "40 beautiful girls." The following year bubble dancer Sally Rand, amid a barrage of pennies, spoke on "How to be Intelligent though Educated." In addition to Miss Rand the Smoker Committee presented Frank Buck, the human giant Jack Earle, and Felix Adler, the world famous clown. President Conant did not appear...
Died. George Davis ("Buck") Weaver, 64, star third baseman for the old Chicago White Sox (1912-20), who was barred from baseball for "guilty knowledge" of the 1919 Black Sox scandal; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Weaver continually pleaded his innocence, spent his last years as a parimutuel clerk at local racetracks...
Cited by Western Reserve for his "integrity, devotion to duty, and his understanding of the student and the faculty mind, Buck became Dean of the Faculty in 1942 and was made Provost in 1945. His book, "Road to Reunion" won the Pulitzer Prize for history...