Word: howe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harold Howe II, the U.S. Commissioner of Education, met with top banking and college officials at the White House this week to iron out conflicts over the administration's new student loan program...
That Boy. At Manhattan's University Club last week, the galleries were packed as two of the game's fiercest competitors had at each other in the finals of the National Singles championship. The favorite in private betting (at 5 to 3) was Samuel Purdy Howe III, 27, a Social Register Philadelphian who wears shirts monogrammed SPH in and learned the game as a child at Pennsylvania's exclusive Merion Cricket Club. His opponent in the finals: Victor Niederhoffer, 22, son of a former New York City policeman, who attended Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School...
Nicks & Boasts. Niederhoffer's manners last week were practically impeccable-and so was his game. In the semifinals, he beat Sam Howe's brother, Ralph, with a dazzling display of drop shots, "nicks" (shots which hit right at the floor line, roll out with no bounce) and "boasts" which carom sharply from a side wall to the front wall, then drop dead off the other side...
...while, in the finals, it looked as if Upstart Niederhoffer was going to get his comeuppance. Sam Howe won the first game easily, 15-11. But Niederhoffer fought back to win the second. With the score tied 13-13 in the third, he mused loudly, "What shall I do?", then uncorked a smashing serve for an ace and went on to win. In the last game, Vic caught his weary opponent leaning the wrong way with two successive backhand drop shots, ran out the match 15-13. "Beautiful game, Victor," conceded Howe, as both exhausted players sagged against the wall...
Handlin himself has already been named to the Warren Chair in American History and Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, will hold the Chair in American Legal history...