Word: defunctive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rams, championship playoff victims two years running, started rewriting the script in the second half. Against a team that had never lost a championship game-the Browns won four straight titles in the defunct All-America Conference-the hard-charging Ram line kept Cleveland's famed quarterback, Otto Graham, constantly bottled up. At the end of the third quarter the Rams were tied, 17 all, with the mighty Browns. The payoff play: a 72-yd. scoring pass from Ram Substitute Quarterback Norman Van Brocklin to End Tom Fears. The new champions: the Rams, by a score...
Byers told a bankruptcy court that the Senator had lost $5,500 shooting craps with the witness' son, Bob Jr., but had brazenly welshed on the debt. He also said that he helped McCarthy write the famed pamphlet on housing regulations for which Lustron Corp., a now defunct outfit which set RFC back $37.5 million, paid the Senator $10,000. McCarthy never coughed up a cent of that, either, said Byers...
Died. Hamilton Holt, 78, from 1925 to 1949 president of Florida's Rollins College (see EDUCATION), onetime editor and owner of the weekly Independent, now defunct; of a heart attack; in Putnam, Conn. At Rollins, Brooklyn-born President Holt abolished lectures, substituted group discussions, credited originality as much as "A" grades, allowed students to determine their own direction and rate of progress. On the side, he stumped the country in support of the League of Nations, later espoused such lesser causes as simplified spelling ("thru") and the Eighteenth Amendment, ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. senate and the Connecticut legislature...
...would take a bold undertaker to deny that Los Angeles is today the queen or pearl of the funeral parlor, crematorium and graveyard world. Where else have American mass-production methods been so ingeniously utilized in delivering the defunct citizen to terminal rest? Where else are rites so cheap and splendid, the morticians so tanned and jolly? Where else does sunshine and music so fully flood the funeral home...
Half a dozen graduates of Washington's now defunct Gunston Hall school for girls got together last week to celebrate the 27th birthday of their friend and classmate Margaret Truman. The night before, Margaret had come down from Manhattan to Washington for the occasion. A late riser by preference, she roused herself for an "early" (8:40) breakfast with her father at Blair House, lunched with her mother before going off to Best Friend Jane Lingo's house to gossip, giggle and eat her favorite chocolate cake with her old school chums...