Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hockey & Henry. From his present eminence as Ford's top stylist. George Walker can look back on a long and circuitous road to success. He was born on May 22, 1896 in a South Side Chicago apartment hotel, the son of an Erie Railroad conductor named William Stuart Walker and a Quaker farm girl from Shattuck, Okla.. who was one-quarter Cherokee Indian. Constantly migrating, first to Jersey City, then to Barberton, Ohio, finally on to Cleveland, Walker got an erratic schooling. His marks were so low that one teacher was sure he would wind up nothing more...
...Radcliffe hockey team placed two of its members on the all-college team at the annual Wellesley hockey playday Saturday. Halfbacks Ann Brace and Judy Fisher made the first team while Louise Bickford, fullback, was chosen to play on the second team, and Lyssa McSherry, forward, won honorable mention...
Despite some of the comic touches (One of the Sullivanites complained that the squabble over the school appointments had left the hockey team without a coach for its Boston Garden appearance.), the campaign is deadly serious. The Mayor, for instance, means it when he says that the CCA is run by "carpetbaggers," and that he could do as well in getting out the votes if he had a ward and precinct organization financed by payoffs from Cambridge industries. CCA leaders, Shaplin in particular, are just as bitter about the Mayor and his treatment of them in the School Committee...
...Gordonstoun, Philip reveled in a rigorous routine that included' two icy showers each day, a long, bracing hike before breakfast, hours spent in the company of dour but expert Scots fishermen and boatbuilders. He became captain of the cricket and hockey teams, and "head boy" of the school in his final year. He was "often naughty, never nasty," pitched in at dirty jobs like anyone else (on one school cruise when everybody else was seasick, he did all the cooking and dishwashing). He early proved he could do most things with less effort than other boys, sometimes showed impatience...
...School team defeated the Radcliffe Hockey Club, 1 to 0, yesterday...