Word: coffman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howie Houston football team, will play in the East-West Shrine game on January 2 in San Franclaco, William Coffman, managing director of the game, announced yesterday. Houston was named to the East squad as a guard...
...school opened, no one was more excited than handsome Dr. L. Dale Coffman, 44, its first dean. Said he: "[It is] the greatest founding since the University of Chicago Law School in this century." A onetime professor at the University of Nebraska, later a corporation lawyer with General Electric Co., and for the last three years dean of Vanderbilt University's law school, Coffman had good reason to be happy at his big premiere. As its chief academic attraction he had persuaded Roscoe Pound, retired dean of the Harvard Law School and revered in the field of jurisprudence...
...Though Coffman plans no radical departures from the tried & true methods of legal education, his five-man faculty will "update the students on the new kinds of law which have become important-administrative law, taxation and labor law." Says he: "We believe in the blocking and tackling school of education-good fundamental training . . . We want to turn out men who will become leaders...
...Palm Springs's biggest winter season began last week, Nellie Coffman celebrated her 80th birthday by riding out to a picnic at the base of towering (10,831 ft.) Mount San Jacinto. There she got 82 birthday cakes ("two to grow on") from friends, some of whom had watched Nellie transform her boarding house into the swank Desert Inn. The story of Nellie had become local history: how she had set herself up as a sort of self-appointed Chamber of Commerce to bring tourists in, keep gamblers out, double as preacher at burial services, and occasionally help neighbors...
...Reality. In 1924, as Nellie had predicted, the paved highway came, not long after she and her sons, George Roberson, now 60 (by her first husband) and Earl Coffman, now 55, had borrowed $35,000 to build the first concrete buildings which are now part of the rambling Desert Inn, with its tile-roofed guest houses, swimming pool and tennis court. They continued expanding through 1930, when the depression caught them $675,000 in debt. Not until 1945 did Nellie manage to pay off all her debts...