Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alan Gottlieb '41, Winnetka, Ill.; Allen W. Greene '42, Passaic, N.J.; Daniel C. Hamilton '41, Bronxville, N.Y.; Edmund J. Harris '42, Waltham Mass.; Frederick B. Harvey Jr. '43, Baltimore, Md.; Lester G. Hawkins Jr. '41, Belmont, Mass...
...William Daniel Stroud of Philadelphia: "[This is] like the subject of athlete's heart. We feel today that the reason many athletes die in their fifties or sixties of coronary disease is not that they were athletic but that they were born with a ... [predisposing] tendency. . . . Five or six years ago ... a Harvard crew returned to college after some 50 years-all were over 70. They entered a shell and rowed down the Charles River. The only man in the crew who had died was the coxswain...
...legend since ascribed to many a newsman was born in Halifax, N. S. about 1849, when Correspondent Daniel Craig, gathering news from abroad as steamers entered the harbor, kept the telegraph wire open by handing the operator a Bible to transmit. Other episodes recorded by Historian Gramling...
Audubon writings include sporadic journals, letters, accounts of his meetings with Frontiersman Daniel Boone, Naturalist-Bird Painter Alexander Wilson, eccentric Naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz. There are lively descriptions of coon, possum, bear and cougar hunts, bird biographies, racy reporting of the frontier's human fauna. Most exciting piece is The Prairie. One night Audubon asked shelter at a cabin where he found a strapping woman, her two hulking sons, an Indian. The woman admired Audubon's gold watch so much that though he lay down, he decided not to sleep. The woman did not sleep either. Writes...
...chairman of the Plan E Committee, Dean Landis spent a hectic Sunday, debating with Daniel Lynch, leader of the anti-City Manager forces, in the afternoon and addressing volunteer Plan E workers in the evening...