Word: earl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some weaknesses that are reflected in journalism schools as a whole. By nimbly dodging through the course catalogue, an aspiring newsman can get away with only one term of general economics, one year of English literature, one year of history. Few faculty members have major professional credits. Dean Earl Franklin English, 53, an earnest, dark-haired man with seven years' experience as a newsman on small papers and a doctorate in psychology, grants that he would like to bolster his faculty, but says frankly that he cannot with Missouri's salary scale...
...makes his move in a single, sweeping motion. He cocks his single-action pistol as he draws it from the holster, fires as soon as it gets into position, sometimes, alas, even sooner. In a recent match with Dillon's men, the Colorado Gunslingers Association's President Earl Vaughn, a Colorado Springs air-conditioning engineer, managed to shoot his right calf full of paraffin. Says Dillon, who has been guilty of the same sin himself: "The oldtimers must have cocked as they drew, too. 'Course, I never heard of any of them shooting themselves in the calf...
...brand of hockey contains not so much finesse, as it does sheer drive and, occasionally, just brute force. Canadiens fans still recall fondly the game in the 1945-46 season when the Rocket charged on the Detroit goal in a solo dash. Barring his way was Earl Seibert, a rugged, 225-lb. defenseman. Richard bent low, collided with Seibert, kept his feet, made the goal one-handed, with Seibert still spraddled atop his shoulders...
...Hosted a dinner honoring the Justices of the Supreme. Court. Justice Felix Frankfurter, who recently suffered a heart ailment, was absent, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, down with a virus, sent his regrets. Added upsets: at dinner, Mrs. Howard Tinney, a Newport, R.I. friend of the Eisenhowers, left the table with a toothache; Mrs. Howard Simpson, wife of the president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, became ill, was later described as having "rapid action of the heart''; Mrs. Earl Warren tripped on the White House front steps, quipped: "It's obvious I need my husband...
...Earl Blaik, Miami '18 (and West Point '20), developed brilliant but thin material into a powerful, razzle-dazzle Army team that went through the season unbeaten, compared favorably with the Blanchard-Davis powerhouses Blaik produced more than a decade...