Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours on Aug. 24, 1942, in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Commander Harry Donald Felt, 40, leader of a bomb and torpedo air group from the carrier Saratoga, was snapping out his orders as he eyed the Japanese light carrier Ryujo with cruiser and destroyer escort from 14,000 ft. Just after Ryujo turned into the wind to launch fighters, Don Felt, Topeka-born, Annapolis '23, pushed over his first wave of bombers. Then he went down with the second wave in a screaming dive through flak and fighters to score one out of his group...
...passenger DC-8 for its first flight. With an escort of two jet chase planes to observe and take pictures, a veteran Douglas test crew took the DC-8 to 31,000 ft., flew it over the Pacific at 360 m.p.h. (top speed: 600 m.p.h.). Said President Donald W. Douglas Jr.: "It looked standard. Like it's going to look in every airport in the world every day." Douglas spent $250 million to design and tool up for its jet, has orders from 17 airlines for 138 planes. It expects to deliver the first in mid-1959. But even...
...Kerouac calls "the pit and prunejuice of poor beat life itself in the god-awful streets of man." Sometimes he "flips," i.e., goes mad. Allen Ginsberg, 32, the discount-house Whitman of the Beat Generation, begins his dithyrambic poem Howl (which the New York Times's Critic J. Donald Adams has suggested should be retitled Bleat) with the lines: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry...
...Jack Barnaby's tennis team followed the idyllic spring pattern as it went undefeated to win the Eastern Intercollegiate League. The match of the year was the Crimson's outstanding 6-3 defeat of Yale which saw varsity Captain Dale Junta climax his Harvard career by defeating Yale's Donald Dell, one of the country's best young players in three sets. Between tennis and squash, Barnaby's teams amassed a 27 and 1 record for him this year. Again the record speaks for itself...
...Donald M. Felt '49, assistant Director of Athletics, yesterday explained further the Athletic Department's decision to reduce drastically the support for these two sports...