Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dan Gallery started the war as commander of the fleet air base at Reykjavik, Iceland. His relationship with the U.S. Army Air Force was sometimes-less than cordial. One day when the Air Force reported 13 German JU-88s on the radar screen and the pips turned out to be twelve ducks, Gallery gleefully asked for full technical details "of this revolutionary development in bombardment aircraft." He also asked what had become of the 13th. Says Gallery: "The colonel made a very silly, unmilitary, and totally impracticable suggestion as to what I could do with that missing duck...
JACK THOMPSON, Princeton senior, makes his points while DAN WILKES, Princeton, JAY NUSSBAUM '52, and LESTER WARD '52, look on in that order...
There is a subplot to "The Rose Tattoo" which deals with the vicissitudes of young love, largely for the purpose of dramatic irony. Sally Hester and Dan Hunter interpret these scenes with tenderness and perception...
...Wilson judges by the performances in Saturday's victory, he will soon be starting both Dan Mayers and Jim Jones, the tallest and fastest men on the squad. Mayers at six foot four looked very good laying in seven points, while Jones almost hustled the tired Engineers off the floor...
...Virginia's Dan River Mills, Inc. announced a new process, mysteriously labeled X2, which it claims will make rayon wear twice as long, resist shrinking, wrinkling, yellowing and harmful effects of some laundry bleaches. ¶Chrysler Corp. rolled out a sleek blue, six-passenger experimental sport car, whose hard-top body was made by Italy's Carrazzeria Ghia. Built on a 125-inch wheelbase (v. 145-2-for Chrysler Crown Imperials), the low-slung "K-310" is 18 ft. 4½ in. overall. It has the same basic engine as the Imperial, but horsepower has been stepped...