Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main thing about James Thurber of Columbus, Ohio is that his parents were people, and that Thurber grasped this unsettling fact quite early in life. Take his father, a man who "could rarely get the top off anything . . . was forever trying to unlock something with the key to something else." How could Thurber, or any kid, ever forget that his dad, wearing a derby hat, tried to repair the lock to the rabbit hutch, and "succeeded only after getting inside the cage, where he was imprisoned for three hours with six Belgian hares and thirteen guinea pigs"? Or take...
...Haystack. In Columbus, Ohio, when the state penitentiary's commissary was looted of 50 cartons of cigarettes and assorted boxes of candy, Warden Ralph W. Alvis announced sternly: "There's a thief in here somewhere...
Unity is not uniformity. If private and parochial schools are divisive . . . then so are ynagogues and churches, so are yachting clubs and vets' organizations, so are Knights lemplar and Knights of Columbus. God deliver us from the spectre of an America in which the cookie-cutter of democracy stamps out millions of rigidly uniform dolls of the same neutral grey. Even Macy's dolls come in different sizes and colors...
Pictured above is JOHN B. OGDEN JR., Freshman Lacrosse Captain, of Columbus, Ohio, and Lionel Hall. Ogden is the first captain since before the war who was elected though the team knew he would be physically unable to play in his sport. His collar bone was fractured four days before the beginning of the season while clearing a ball from his position in the goal...
Major Swimming H--Paul W. Dillingham, Jr., Columbus, Ohio; Charles J. Egan, Jr., Brookline; Kenneth Emerson Urbania, Ill.; Richard J. Fouquet, Bay side, N. Y.; Hugh B. Hartwell, Worcester; David L. Hedberg, Worcester; Ronald E. Huebsch, Darien, Conn.; John J. McNamara, Jr., Boston; John B. Millard Newton; Donald J. Mulvey, Andover, Philip G. Pratt, Windsor, Conn.; Marvin Sandler, Brooklyn; Robert M. Stroud St. Louis, Mo.; Richard C. Wheeler Peabody; Ralph L. Zani, Worcester Thomas L. Barretto, Manager, Newton...