Word: colliers
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Since 1911, the Collier Trophy has been given yearly, by a committee of U.S. aviation experts, to the man responsible for "the greatest achievement in aviation in America." Past committees have honored such sky milestones as the practical parachute, the blind-landing system, the twin-engine commercial transport, the air offensive against Germany, the first supersonic flight.* Last week the trophy went to Leonard Sinclair Hobbs, United Aircraft Corp.'s vice president for engineering. His achievement: development and production of the J-57, the world's most powerful production jet engine...
...block but not tackle, the player who could pass but could not defend against enemy passes. This year All-America football selectors did not have to worry about such refinements as offensive and defensive teams. Last week and this, the Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Look and Collier's released their choices. Notre Dame Halfback Johnny Lattner, for the second year in a row, made everybody's team. The consensus...
...spook that hurls itself against the door, knocking piteously to be let in, is neither seen nor described but is known to the reader to be a cadaver which was last observed being crunched in the innards of a factory machine. Light as a feather, and funny, is John Collier's The Bottle Party, which is not ghostly at all but deals with the imps which lie imprisoned in bottles crying, "Let me out! Do let me out! . . . I'm harmless. Please...
Glenard Paul Lipscomb, endorsed by his local party organization, was backed by Vice President Richard Nixon and California's new Governor Goodwin Knight. The other Republican, John L. Collier, was the candidate of the opposing faction (followers of ex-Governor Earl Warren, now U.S. Chief Justice, and Senator William Knowland). The Democratic candidate was George Arnold, 32-year-old son of Trustbuster Thurman Arnold and a son-in-law of Columnist Drew Pearson...
Still smarting from their defeat in New Jersey's Sixth Congressional District, national G.O.P. leaders were afraid that Arnold would get more votes than either Lipscomb or Collier. More and more local Republicans recognized the need to get behind one candidate. They went all-out for Nixon's man, Lipscomb, with an effectiveness that Senator Knowland reflected when, four days before the election, he, too, issued an endorsement of Lipscomb. The 24th District stayed Republican after all. The vote: Lipscomb 42,880, Arnold 34,545, Collier...