Word: hickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clean Shirts. In 1940 Libby married Leonor Hickey, a young teacher of physical education who first heard about Libby from a friend's maid ("He's not terribly exciting," said the maid, "but he always wears clean shirts"), and still regards him as a goodhearted country boy who wears unsophisticated clothes. "He thinks he's a wonderful bridge player," confides Mrs. Libby, "but he's really lousy." Libby got a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to Princeton, but a few months later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and he offered his services to Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey...
...Louis School Superintendent Philip Hickey announced that a "major learning program" for gifted students will begin in city high schools next fall. Guided by special teacher-counselors, selected students will be encouraged to take extra courses, work on study projects outside class, engage in extracurricular activities; moreover, their parents will be urged to send them through college or advanced technical training. Required for admittance to the program: an outstanding ability in a particular field, e.g.," languages, mathematics and an I.Q. at least 20 points above the class average...
...Navy had found out enough about Pride to name him chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics-the first non-Annapolis man ever to head a bureau. He kept out of public participation in the unification and B-36 battles, but Admiral Robert Hickey, now chief of staff to the Navy's Far East commander, says: "He was in there fighting, you can bet on that, but nobody would even have known...
WILLIAM JAMES HICKEY...
EDWARD V. HICKEY W. Newton, Mass...