Word: hempstead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of military service, Thomas ("Pop") Thornton of Hempstead, Texas, has bounced from sergeant to private and back again like a yoyo. Usually it was his half-Irish, half-English temper that cost him his stripes...
President Stuart G. Levine '54 of Hempstead. New York, and Leverett House; vice-president, Edward C. Stablen '55 of Syosset, Long Island, and Dunster House, secretary, John D. Marie III '55 of Washington, D.C. and Winthrop House treasurer, Leonard S. Gettes '54 of Watertown Mass., and Eliot House...
...Hofstra College in Hempstead, L.I., the Crown and Lance fraternity planned its "Hell Week" hazing with care. After a nod of approval from their faculty sponsor, the fun-loving brothers daubed the heads and bellies of seven blindfolded pledges with a noxious mixture of ketchup, mustard, egg yolk and water. The pledges promptly broke out in skin blisters ; one got a badly burned eye. Suspecting that heavyhanded undergraduates had fouled up the recipe with lye or turpentine, the interfraternity council decreed that Hofstra will hereafter have no hazing...
Photographers last week collected an album of smiling royalty and rulers bending to the charms of the younger generation. On her first trip to Hemel Hempstead, northwest of London, where she laid the cornerstone for a new church, Queen Elizabeth II visited a new housing development where she captured the cool and undisguised admiration of one of her young subjects...
...Installed Heart Specialist Louis H. Bauer of Hempstead. N.Y. as president for the next twelve months, and chose Surgeon Edward J. McCormick of Toledo as president-elect to take office next June...