Word: derek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he quit school at 15, hardworking Derek Wiscombe had earned and saved enough money to buy out his former employer, an itinerant firewood dealer. During the next two years, with the help of an ancient wagon and an agreeable white mare named Gypsy, young Derek managed not only to get along, but to expand his business as well. Besides selling firewood in the Newcastle suburb of Jarrow-on-Tyne (guaranteed wagon-to-hearth delivery), he took on trucking jobs, even transplanted hedges...
...Derek's own enthusiasm was unflagging, but aging Gypsy was not so durable. Some weeks ago, realizing that his old mare could no longer "pull the big loads...
...want," Derek bought himself a secondhand truck. That meant applying to the Newcastle authorities for a carrier license...
...changes in this week's Crimson team are a sign of the strong competition for places, but injuries have also played a part. Flank Ash Hallett is a doubtful starter due to flu, and the side's two outstanding 200-lb. props, Charlie Eaton and Derek Henderson, are both out for the rest of the season, as the result of an old football injury and a displaced cartilage respectively. Replacing them will be French law student Philip Monnot and freshman Warren Young...
...Derek Torrey Winans '60, acting secretary of the group, said that the State Department had called yesterday afternoon to say that the Syrian crisis and the visit of Queen Elizabeth would prevent Herter from leaving Washington...