Word: gridirons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McNicol and Chub Peabody, regulars on last year's Varsity, the red-jerseyed half of Dick Harlow's spring football squad romped through the Grays and scored an easy victory by the margin of three touchdowns and one safety in the final spring session on the Soldiers Field practice gridiron yesterday afternoon...
...Baruch's advice, used the businessmen Baruch put him in touch with to handle individual prices, particularly copter (TIME, Dec. 9). For weeks Baruch has been a regular White House caller, and his influence with the President was the subject of many skits at this spring's Gridiron dinner...
...news was brought to the President as he sat in the long ballroom of the Willard Hotel, surrounded by newspaper veterans, bigwigs from all over the U.S., Washington officialdom, the diplomatic corps and all the quasi-humorous paraphernalia of the semiannual Gridiron dinner. The dinner had been the same, the entertainment duller than usual. Massachusetts' tall young Republican Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., had spoken for the Loyal Opposition...
...Kirkland House Juniors, Alan "Iggy" R. Anderson and Allen W. Mathis, have been working day and night to form a sizable fan club for Chucking Charley O'Rourke at Harvard. They aim to perpetuate the memory of Boston College's greatest gridiron hero among Harvard students; miniature Eagles and O'Rourke buttons can be obtained at Kirkland...
...Wendell Willkie flew from Hobe Sound, Fla. for a Manhattan conference, attended the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, where he delivered the principal off-the-record address to an enthusiastic audience, returned to Manhattan to say his say to the ex-Willkie Club members: "I have a tremendous interest in principles and in that endeavor I hope to carry on. ... One of the difficulties in American public life has been its failure to call its ablest and best men in public service. ... I hope that as a result of the Willkie Club movement you will develop men and women...