Word: hadley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geography. Yale's transformation into a true university had started under Angell's predecessor, Economist Arthur Twining Hadley, '76, Yale's Grand Old Man (of whom a colleague once said: "He thinks in Hebrew; reasons in Latin, spins you a joke in Greek"). Angell completed the transition. Suddenly, the cautious campus found itself with a brand-new engineering school, an observatory at Johannesburg, the first U.S. graduate school of nursing. With the millions that poured in, mainly from Philanthropists Edward S. Harkness and John W. Sterling, Yale got a whole new geography. Angell built...
...summary: Mann (H) defeated Neave, 6-4, 6-4; Rauh (H) defeated Maginnes, 6-4, 6-1; Spencer (H) defeated Workman, 6-1, 6-4; Bosssart (H) defeated Hadley, 6-0, 6-3; Carollo (H) defeated Rich, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; Stone (H) defeated Todd...
Rauh and Mann (H) defeated Neave and Maginnes, 6-0, 6-2; Bossort and Spencer (H) defeated Workman and Hadley, 6-3, 6-1; Todd and Tucker (Y) defeated Goodman and Warde...
...early afternoon it gets very hot in the cage. One of the players-sweating off weight in a rubber suit under his blue-sleeved uniform--is obviously no kid. He's Elbie Fletcher, former Pittsburgh and Braves first baseman and a friend of Stuffy's. Fletcher, working with Bump Hadley on a Boston sports broadcast, spends considerable time working out with the varsity aspirants. "He's trying to get into shape to play with a western Massachusetts league this summer," somebody offers...
...Orchids for Miss Blandish (Renown), made in England, purports to be a movie about U.S. gangsters. Adapted from a claptrap novel by Britain's James Hadley Chase (real name: Rene Raymond), who once confessed cribbing from U.S. hard-boiled fiction, the picture outraged London (TIME, May 10, 1948). Censors howled that it was brutal, sadistic, sensual; critics slammed it as "a piece of nauseating muck...