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...results of a freshly invigorated study by a two-man committee of the Department of Statistics aimed at making concentration in that field available to undergraduates will probably be presented for approval "within a month," according to William G. Cochran, professor of Statistics...
...began rolling when the distinguished three-member fact-finding board reported bleakly to the President on its ten-day effort to mediate a settlement: "The board cannot point to any single issue of any consequence whatsoever upon which the parties are in agreement." Next morning Assistant Attorney General George Cochran Doub boarded an Air Force plane for Pittsburgh, steel capital, to argue the U.S.'s case for a Taft-Hartley injunction before District Judge Herbert P. Sorg...
Wingate's air officer was U.S. Colonel Philip Cochran, who had won some fame of his own as the model for "Flip Corkin" in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. On their first meeting, Cochran thought Wingate was an elaborate hoax, and was so baffled by his British public-school accent (Charterhouse) that he was sure Wingate suffered from an impediment in his speech. But at their second meeting, Cochran found "something very deep" about him and realized he "was beginning to assimilate some of the flame of this guy Wingate...
Graham was a shade too fatherly, Sheilah implies, to be fully satisfactory as a mate, but he did replace the U-brush with some H's and cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place...
Inside Cocoa, strapped into parachutes and Mae Wests, buckled to seats, heavily helmeted, sat Brigadier General Donald W. Saunders, 45, commander of the four-plane mission; a six-man crew headed by Plane Commander Lieut. Colonel George Broutsas, 39; and eight civilians. William J. Cochran, 36, and William R. Enyart, 57, were officials of the National Aeronautic Association who were making the trip as official observers. The other six were newsmen assigned to cover the record-making flight: the U.S. News & World Report's A. Robert Ginsburgh, 63, a retired Air Force brigadier general, and Glen A. Williams...