Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Harvard's football philosophy. This past year, moreover, Centre's small enrollment managed to turn out a team that beat all eight of its opponents, led the nation in offense, and--if it could have paid for train tickets--would have played in the Tangerine Bowl at Orlando, Florida. The Athletic Department should do all it can to get Centre up to the Stadium as soon as possible. As the CRIMSON said in 1921: "It will be a great game--the one next October when the Crimson meets Centre again. It will be a fight from start to finish...
...armadas. "Under my power as Commander in Chief of the Alabama Air National Guard, I am ordering every jet, every C-47 and everything that can roll on wheels, much less, fly, to fly over Jacksonville Dec. 31 in a special weather mission," thundered he. "I hear that the Florida runways are in bad shape and need to be inspected, so these here Alabama planes will give...
...over whether Harry S. Truman had called Vice President Richard Nixon a "son of a bitch." It moved on to Alabama, where New York's Governor Averell Harriman bagged a wild turkey, and to New Orleans, where Harriman found the political hunting not so good. It covered the Florida peninsula, where Adlai Stevenson, fishing for votes, landed a sailfish and a pair of skin divers. It ended in Oklahoma City, where Democrats converged for the explicit purpose of skewering Republicans...
From Jacksonville to Gainesville to Ocala to De Land to Sanford to Orlando to Miami, Adlai Stevenson was politicking in Florida and shaking hands with all the pumplike precision, but not the gusto, of an Estes Kefauver. In Gainesville he wandered about the University of Florida campus, answered questions from students, replied manfully when a fixed-up coed asked: "Mr. Eisenhower, may I have your autograph?" Grinned Stevenson: "How do you spell...
...After missing in five races at Florida's Tropical Park, Jockey Willie Hartack (TIME, Nov. 28) climbed aboard the eighth-race favorite, Athena, and booted home his 400th winner of the year. Hartack moved up with Willie Shoemaker, the only other 400 winner, just in time. He will have precious few racing days left to mount more winners: for letting his horse bear out in an earlier race, he drew a ten-day suspension...