Word: byrds
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...Virginia's Sixth (Roanoke), Ninth (Bristol) and Tenth (Alexandria) Districts. In 1952, with Eisenhower's popularity running high in the South and U.S. Senator Harry Byrd on the fence in the presidential contest, three Republicans slipped into these Democratic seats. This year, Byrd's Democratic machine is running on all cylinders behind the Democratic candidates. The Republicans are in trouble. (In contrast, Representative Charles Raper Jonas, the first Republican to be elected in North Carolina's Tenth District [Charlotte] in 24 years, has a good chance to be re-elected...
Trim, stocky Wilson Elkins could hardly have found a better way to emphasize that Maryland is under new management. His predecessor, Harry ("Curly") Byrd, was a onetime Maryland coach (1913-34) who had set out after World War II, with alumni support, to get Maryland the best football team that money could buy. Over the years, he talked legislators into ever greater appropriations for the University of Maryland, and paid them in a current coin: football victories. When he resigned last January, after 18 years as U. of M. president, to run for governor on the Democratic ticket, Curly Byrd...
...building Maryland's great football teams and physical plant (e.g., a $375,000 hen house for poultry students, the $1,000,000 Byrd Stadium), Booster Byrd did little for the U. of M.'s reputation as an incubator of academic learning. Most scholars gave Maryland a wide berth, and of last year's 2,045 graduates, only 373 received degrees in the arts and sciences...
President Elkins is determined to add academic luster to Maryland's plant and prowess. A star quarterback at the University of Texas and a onetime Rhodes Scholar, he came to Maryland after five years as president of Texas Western College (2,900 students). Well aware of Curly Byrd's "enviable contributions," he has no intention of plowing under the football team, concedes realistically that to attain distinction, a university needs endowment, and good football teams stimulate endowment giving. But in putting the accent on "distinction," he plans "a strong academic program," library expansion, and increased discussion of controversial...
Died. Bert Acosta, 59, pilot of the historic multi-engined flight across the Atlantic (1927) with Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Bernt Balchen; of tuberculosis; in Denver. At 14 (in 1910), Acosta built and flew his own plane, went on to establish a world's speed record (176.7 m.p.h.) at 26 and endurance record (51 hr. 11 min. 25 sec.) at 32; in later life, despite hard times and family problems, wound up with a legendary reputation for skillful piloting and artful risk-taking (e.g., he once buzzed Manhattan's Metropolitan Life tower to see what time...