Word: courtney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Courtney C. Smith '38, President of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., was a Rhodes Scholar and a teaching fellow in English at Harvard. He has been American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships since...
When Fritz Mayer reached his retirement age two years ago, his magnificent instrument (current value: $350,000) was still incomplete: the highly complicated piston controls-for quick changing of the 757 stop keys-were not hooked up. Under the energetic leadership of Manhattan's Mrs. Courtney Campbell, veteran of Washington politics, Mayer's friends went to work, lobbied through Congress and right up to the White House. Result: President Truman's Executive Order 10,334, exempting Mayer from compulsory retirement "in the public interest . . . for an indefinite period." Organist Mayer went right on supervising the completion...
...soldier fades away, Douglas MacArthur's lieutenants are coming forward to speak for him. General George Kenney, his air commander, has already written exuberantly but superficially of The Mac Arthur I Know. Currently General Courtney Whitney, MacArthur's adviser and military aide from old Australia days, is cranking up an authoritative memoir for publication next year. Now, with the expert help of Author-Critic John Chamberlain, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, 62, one of the original "Bataan boys," tells of the ten years he served as MacArthur...
...fortnight ago, broke his own record (by ½ in.) with another record heave of 60 ft. 5 3/4 in. He is now aiming at 62 ft. Another world record was set at the Coliseum relays when the Fordham University quartet of Terry Foley, Frank Tarsney, Bill Persichetty and Tom Courtney ran the two-mile relay in 7:27.3. Old (1952) record...
...Bolts." The 23-year-old righthander has drawn raves all over the American League circuit. "He's the fastest thing I've seen since Bob Feller was at his best," said New York Yankee Manager Casey Stengel. "This fellow throws lightning bolts." Baltimore's Catcher Clint Courtney, gingerly waving a sore hand, says, "Turley's the fastest guy I ever caught...