Word: dickey
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When John Sloan Dickey, now 48, took over as twelfth president of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., he faced what could have been a trying situation. His predecessor, Ernest Martin Hopkins, had been the heart and soul of the college for 29 years, and it seemed almost inevitable that Dickey's first moves would suffer by comparison. As it turned out, they did not. By last week, a decade later, Dartmouth and Dickey had every reason to feel satisfied with each other...
...genial John Dickey graduated from Dartmouth in 1929, went on to the Harvard Law School and then to the varied sort of career of a typical rising young man. In 1934 he divided his time between private practice and service with the State Department. He became special assistant to Cordell Hull, chairman of the department's Division of World Trade Intelligence. In 1944, when Dartmouth was looking for a new president, Dickey was appointed director of State's Office of Public Affairs. In 1945 he became Dartmouth's president...
...GENE DICKEY LEON E. TESTER W. M. HENDRICKSON Chincoteague...
...Central American mountains, playing for peanuts, but always playing well. During seven seasons as a Dodger regular he has cheerfully suffered an extraordinary collection of broken bones, beanballs and assorted bruises. He has learned his trade so well that today oldtimers rank him with the best ever, with Bill Dickey and "Gabby" Hartnett, "Mickey" Cochrane and Roger Bresnahan...
...Dickey added the increase in part reflected the same general inflation in costs that has led other Ivy League schools to raise charges for next year. Yale increased its tuition by $200 last November, and Princeton followed in January with a $150 boost...