Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greg Stone and Duane Murner. The talented Stone was practically undefeated last year; the hard-working Murner came just about as close to him as anyone could get. "It will take a darn good diver to beat them," Batterman said. But this year the Yale meet is at New Haven, where the Blue divers have the advantage of familiarity with the board...
ALEXANDER ALEXIADES New Haven, Conn...
...Evelyn Byrd, 67, unwarily recalled: "No woman has ever set foot on Little America . the most silent and peaceful place in the world." By the time he reached Dallas on his way to New Zealand, lady pickets awaited him. In high good humor, they waved signs protesting his womanless haven. Explorer Byrd smiled wanly...
...Haven shows a $3,300,000 jump in operating income this year, de spite a $1,400,000 drop in passenger revenue. The improvement is at least partly the result of stepped-up freight service, e.g., interline piggyback service (a phrase that wryly amuses sardonic commuters), which was extended last week to the Midwest. The New Haven has laid 27,000 tons of new main-line track in 1955. But it has also shaved its maintenance bill. To maintain 3,200 miles of track and hundreds of bridges and stations, it spent $11,484,819 for the first eight months...
...McGinnis has a personal interest in maintainance: he spends more than half his time riding the New Haven in his comfortably furnished private car.* To most passengers, the most notable change on the New Haven since McGinnis took over has been the bold use of color on its rolling stock and on some Cape Cod and Westchester County stations. Last week McGinnis' dark-haired wife Lucille, a onetime interior decorator, was riding the New Haven with Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki, bent on "perking up" the road's dark and dingy stations in what McGinnis calls (he "grey-flannel...