Word: cramers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Major General Kenneth Frank Cramer, 59, wealthy Connecticut coal dealer and politician, longtime National Guard officer who rose to general's rank in World War II; of a heart attack while on a hunting trip in Bavaria, where he was stationed as commander of U.S. Army troops in southern Germany. A rock-hard disciplinarian, he drew heavy fire from mothers, wives and Congressmen in 1951 for his rigid handling of his 43rd (Connecticut National Guard) Division, and later, in Germany, set off more outcries by his zealous efforts to stamp out drinking and promiscuity (he had a lieutenant...
...have brought hazard and death to the competitors. But last week, blessed by the balmiest weather in Rally history, a record percentage of finishers-331 of 363 starters-whizzed through the flag-draped finish gate on Monte Carlo's Quai Albert Premier. The only American entrant, Frederick Cramer, 48, a history professor from Mount Holyoke College, summed up this year's mild competition as "an agreeable hobby for middle-aged persons...
Competitor Cramer, accompanied by his wife and a Dutch co-driver and driving a Willys-Overland sedan, started from Athens, negotiated the relatively crude roads of Greece and Yugoslavia with little difficulty (unlike another Athens starter, Englishman Harry Sutcliffe, whose little Morris was badly shaken up by a large Yugoslavian sheepdog that rammed it head-on). Professor Cramer's trouble came in France. In the mountainous stretch between Le Puy and Valence, where swirling snows blinded drivers two years ago, the Cramers fell victim to the commonest of all traffic hazards, bungled directions, when they were sent down...
...This week Cramer had a chance of winning the "comfort" competition with a couple of in genious accessories:1) two loo-lb. bags of sand, slung on either side of the motor, from which he could release a trickle for rear-wheel traction when the going got slippery, and 2) an ultraviolet searchlight on his car's roof, which, Cramer believes, helps neutralize the glare of oncoming headlights...
Beni scored his third touchdown of the day in the fourth period on a short plunge. Kirkland scored in the last minute on an eight yard drive by Bud Cramer...