Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talented athletes. Cornell's sophomore Bob Mealey, the national AAU 1000 champion, will probably win his event tomorrow; Penn has a 7:56 two-mile relay team, Olympic hurdler Jeff Kirk, and two-miler Dick Hart; Brown high jumper Dick Phillips generally gets up ever six-six; Al Holland, of Columbia, has done 1:15.3 in the 600; Princeton's Ronald Wittreich will probably press Eli George Wade in the mile; and Dartmouth has the 1948 cross country champion, Stan Waterman...
Louis Lautier, Atlantic Daily World Washington correspondent, and Simeon Booker, Jr., of the Cleveland Call-Post, received $250 awards for "distinguished correspondence." Nieman Fellow judges included Alan Barth, Grady E. Clay, David B. Dreiman, and E. L. Holland...
...Years or Forever. But when Hitler's armies invaded The Netherlands, Mengelberg welcomed them with open arms. At war's end he fled to Switzerland, and the Dutch Centrale Ereraad voor de Kunst (Central Council of Honor for the Arts) forbade him to conduct ever again in Holland, later reduced his banishment to six years-well knowing that for Mengelberg, then 76, six years might be forever...
...Queen Wilhelmina asked me to return the decoration which she had once bestowed on me. And do you know why? A newspaper poll once revealed that Mengelberg was the most popular name in Holland, and that the Queen held only second place . . ." His secretary apologetically intervened: "He sometimes can't get the facts straight any more...
Just a Minute, Please. In Gushing, Okla., Mrs. Everett Holland asked the cabdriver who had driven her to Yale Hospital to wait, reappeared two hours later with her newborn...