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Unless Eric Stromsted or Dick Rubin can better previous performances, Yale's Spence Cone, Gould Donahue, and Paul Mason can sweep the hammer; but Charlie Keith and Don Trimble are a potential Harvard one, two with the javelin, with either Fred Ravreby or Eli Dick Bowers grabbing third...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Track Squad to Meet Yale | 5/12/1950 | See Source »

...years shared a trim white house with her West Highland white terrier Gregory (named after Gregory the Great) and Novelist Mary Ellen Chase (Silas Crockett, The Bible and the Common Reader); she has long celebrated the completion of each Chase book by buying its author an ice cream cone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Carroll Cone, an assistant vice president of Pan American Airways. A dedicated Democrat from Arkansas, Cone corralled money even from Dixiecrat & Republican friends, kept up good relations for Pan Am on the Democratic side of the fence. Cone gave $3,000 himself, collected $300,000 and had a hand in bringing the trainmen's A. F. Whitney backing into the Truman roundhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE ANGELS OF THE TRUMAN CAMPAIGN | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...solve all this, Menzel directs a cone-roofed observatory in Colorado, and a new station in New Mexico, close to the site of the first atom bomb. The observatories are equipped with spectrohelioscopes-- astronomical X-ray machines that penetrate to the inner layers of the sun--and with coronoscopes, which blot out the sun like an eclipse, so that the other corona can be watched. Menzel went west a few months ago to spend all his time at the solar stations, on the Astronomy Department's biggest project...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Scientists Take Temperatures of Sun's Corona, Yellowstone's Geysers | 5/11/1949 | See Source »

Flame & Fight. There had been plenty of reports to keep Project Saucer busy. In January 1948, an object like "an ice cream cone topped with red" was sighted by several observers over Godman Air Force Base, Ft. Knox, Ky. Three fighter planes flew off in pursuit. Captain Thomas F. Mantell chased the object to 20,000 ft., later crashed, probably from lack of oxygen, and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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