Word: hosmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...join the Zen Buddhist club, learned where to sneak in after college gates close at midnight. The headiest shock was Oxford's enfolding leisure. Suddenly there was time to talk all night, to sleep until noon. "Back there," mused the go-go Air Academy's Brad Hosmer, 21, "I barely had time to read a book a week." Muttered another unbound lieutenant: "I keep thinking I ought to be doing something every second...
...military students seem less Edwardian than determined. Air Academy-man Hosmer (No. 1 in his class) is backed by West Pointers Jim Ray (No. 2 in his class), Stan Karanowski (No. 3), Powell Hutton (No. 4), Mike Gillette (No. 23) and Pete Dawkins (No. 10), West Point's celebrated Ail-American halfback and first captain of cadets. Dawkins will play Rugby only for his intramural Brasenose College team ("not with a splash, but gradually"). Hosmer will do some wistful spare-time flying ("All my classmates are in pilot training"). The real job is Oxford's challenging labor...
...Dumbo, on Condor. Nothing like that happened last week. As scientists and spectators, including Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah and Congressman Craig Hosmer of California, watched from a shelter two miles away, Kiwi strutted its stuff without a misstep...
...West Point captured five Rhodes scholarships-equaled only by Harvard. The Air Academy came through with one. Cadet Bradley C. Hosmer, first man of the first class. But Annapolis and the Coast Guard Academy got no Rhodes scholarships at all; it became clear years ago that a new ensign who accepts a Rhodes forfeits time at sea and mysteriously never catches up in rank with his class...
From the Interstate Commerce Commission last week came a 121-page prescription for restoring the health of the nation's railroads. Rejecting a prognosis by ICC Hearing Examiner Howard Hosmer that if the present rate of passenger-traffic decline continues, Pullman service will end by 1965 and coach service (except for commuters) by 1970, ICC hopefully insisted that railroad passenger service "is, and for the foreseeable future will be, an integral part of our national transportation system and essential for the nation's well-being and defense." But it conceded that if the railroads are to continue...