Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago the ten colleges in the Pacific Coast Conference hired a former FBI agent to keep their football "pure." But onetime G-Man Edwin Atherton, though he ruled some 50 players ineligible, never took the kind of step his successor, Victor O. Schmidt, did. Schmidt sleuthed campuses, found evidence that coaches and alumni were breaking rules in entertaining and recruiting star high-school athletes for conference teams. He thereupon fined every college in the conference last week. Oregon State College got off lightest: its fine was $25. The biggest was slapped on the best team: U.C.L.A., the conference champion...
...first success came too late," says Author Caldwell. "I always loved clothes, for instance. I used to faint from starvation in the office . . . just to save money to buy them. . . . Now clothes don't mean anything to me." But a few months ago, when Critic Edwin Seaver suggested in the Saturday Review of Literature that "the specter of commercialism" was haunting U.S. literature, Author Caldwell (who is now vacationing in Paris and Rome) turned on him like a tigress. "My most 'lyrical prose,' " she retorted, "has resulted from the anticipation of big checks ... a new home...
Sharing the platform at the Dinner with Bolte were Wilbur J. Bender '26, AVC member and Dean-elect of the College, Cord Meyer, Jr., of the AVC National Planning Committee, and Edwin H. B. Pratt, State AVC Chairman. Meyer contended that steps toward "strengthening the U. N. in the direction of limited world government" spelled the only way to peace...
...good or ill, the Senate had made up its mind. Firmly, it voted down the attempt of Colorado's Edwin C. Johnson to eliminate military aid. Then, 41 days after President Truman's challenge, the Senate approved the Truman Doctrine...
...Crimson trio consisting of Hugh H. Hill '48, Edwin J. Jacob '47, and Howard L. Swartzman '47 defeated their hosts at Princeton, while their collegues were losing a unanimous verdict to a visiting team from Yale in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Princeton took the third leg of the series by trouncing Yale on the Eli home grounds...