Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stayed to become an authority on criminal law, Principal of B.N.C. (Brasenose College) and one of Oxford's better hosts. This week, at 63, he became Vice Chancellor, the nearest Oxford equivalent to a U.S. university president (the Chancellorship of Oxford, at present held by the Earl of Halifax, is strictly honorary...
...Trieste, once more in the world of free men, the three released Americans, Lieut. William Van Atten, Pfc. Glen A. Meyer and Pfc. Earl G. Hendrick Jr., told their story of five days in the Yugoslav shadows...
West Point's Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik as yet has no reasonable facsimile of famed Glenn ("Mr. Outside") Davis, though he has a promising star in 22-year-old Bobby Stuart. Says Blaik: "Davis had a long stride and five or six different speeds. Stuart has a short stride and only two or three speeds." But Army, unbeaten in three years, began its fourth season by beating beefy Villanova...
...rumor had gone around that Columbia University wanted Sproul as president, at a whacking figure. Nearly 8,000 students jammed the gym, chafed impatiently until Governor Earl Warren, '12, finished a long speech. Then up jumped husky varsity halfback and Student President Ed Welch. Grabbing the mike, he cried: "We've been trying to steal a coach from another university. Now another university is trying to steal our most important man. We can't go on without Bob Sproul!" The band played For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. A blue-&-gold banner implored: STICK WITH...
Some 1,000 ex-service flyers started freight lines at war's end, but only eight lines of-any consequence are still flying. The biggest of these is Slick Airways, Inc., of San Antonio. Last week, the line's young (26) president, Earl F. Slick, who is also president of Independent Airfreight Association, laid the independents' case before the President's Air Policy Commission. "If this rate goes through," he warned, "we'll all be bankrupt in six months...