Word: captain
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Daughter of Army Colonel Percy W. Thompson (now retired), Barbara lived on Army posts, went to high school in Gainesville, Fla., attended Purdue for a while before her father was transferred to Vienna in 1946. There, in the normal round of Army social events, she met Captain John Eisenhower, U.S. Infantry, who was a company commander. They got married less than a year later in Virginia, at a big wedding attended by 200 guests, including Army Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower...
Boston's famed Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 73, is almost as eager as was Captain Ahab to sink a harpoon into the mightiest leviathan of the deep, but for a different reason: he wants to record its electrocardiogram. Dr. White has logged the ECG of a small (only 1¼ ton) Beluga whale in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952), but has been thwarted in efforts to get his electrodes into the bigger grey whale off California. Last week he was within a heartbeat of an equally desirable prize, and missed by a fluke...
...Cuffe was the game's high scorer with 24 points raising his average to 17.0, best on the team. Cuffe also led in rebounds and paced the varsity in one of its most balanced performances to date. Gary Borchard and captain Mike Donahue also hit double figures, with 12 and 11 points respectively...
...varsity captain, Keyes made All-Ivy for the third successive year. He excelled this season despite several crippling injuries. McCall, long recognized by coach Bruce Munro as one of the best halfbacks in the East, was a standout on both offense and defense...
...California two weeks earlier. The game was never even close. Syracuse's "Sizable Seven" linemen (average weight: 216 lbs.) scornfully brushed aside U.C.L.A.'s specially designed trap plays, held U.C.L.A.'s offense to a humiliating minus 13 yds. on the ground. Led by German-born Team Captain Gerhard Schwedes, a slashing right halfback, Syracuse rolled up touchdowns with offhand ease. Score: Syracuse 36, U.C.L.A. 8-convincing proof that Syracuse was the finest college team in the land...