Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weigh the views of a Negro youth whose choice of a college was decidedly affected by racial barriers. I was born and bred in Princeton. The events of your university during the past decade are among the most intimate of my childhood memories. I saw your Bill Bonthron challenge Glenn Cunningham. I cheered for Le Van, Fairman, and Ceppi when the Bengals were invincible. I feel that I am just as much a son of Old Nassau as many...
Died. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 72, shepherd of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, virtual dictator for some 30 years of Zion, Ill.; in Chicago. He expected to reach the age of 120 on a diet of Brazil nuts and buttermilk, recently remarked that if he died before 1990 nobody would be more surprised than himself. He was best known to the world at large for his conviction that the earth is "flat as a pancake"-a belief he still held after a round-the-world cruise. In 1910 he got control of all Zion's real estate...
About the size of a suitcase, weighing 128 lb., the compact device is already in use for testing all types of planes from single-seater fighters to B-19s. A recorder costs $2,000 (Glenn Martin paid for one in a week with money saved in life-insurance premiums for the three observers usually carried on heavy bomber test flights). But the supply of recorders is still limited...
There aren't many frills or fancy hooper-doopers among the Indians' plays, and straight power stuff from a single wing has been their forte. Out at the end posts they can brag about two snappy ball handlers from the basketball court, Glenn Knox and Al Vandeweghe. Both are veterans, and both will probably start today despite talk of leg injuries...
...Glenn Martin told about the 70-ton flying boat he has developed. Major General Brereton spoke to you from Egypt about the U.S. Forces in the Middle East. And the United Press reports that Senator Prentiss M. Brown's plea over the MARCH OF TIME last Thursday night may well have turned the tide in the Senate in favor of his compromise plan on agricultural parity...