Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton coach is not alone in his denunciation of the new rule. Homer Smith, captain-elect of the team, president of his class, and next to God and Caldwell at Nassau, doesn't like it, either. The persevering Smith, who kept running for a full afternoon last fall against Harvard to set a record, feels that "it is a shame for the thousands of boys who won't get a chance to play." We must remind Smith that there were, indeed, many thousands of boys who didn't play under the old rule...
...seniority (16 years) among Republican Senators. California's middle-of-the-road William Fife Knowland succeeded Taft as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee. When Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall indicated that he wanted to continue as assistant floor leader (whip), Taft got Michigan's Homer Ferguson to stop eying the post, and Saltonstall, an early Eisenhower supporter, stepped in as Taft's assistant...
...under the spell of a great teacher. Professor Charles Wager was a kindly, quiet man who described himself as an "umbratile nature" (one who lives in the shadows of great men); but when he spoke of Victorian literature, or carried his students on the tide of his enthusiasm from Homer to Dante, the shadows vanished. From Wager, Thornton learned a lesson he was never to forget: "Every great work was written this morning...
...three years ago after working on several west Texas dailies, went to work. He sent reporters out to visit the joints, ran descriptions of them and their operators. At one point Ragsdale led Texas Rangers to 320 slot machines hidden in a barn, to the chagrin of Ranger Chief Homer Garrison Jr., who had said Texas was "clean as a whistle...
Finally, Senator Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.), chairman-to-be of the Internal Security Committee, indicated he too would question some educators as part of its general investigations into communist subversion...