Word: hoyt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Rochester's George Hoyt Whipple, 76, Nobel laureate and for 32 years the kindly dean of the medical school. The son and grandson of physicians, Whipple earned his own M.D. at Johns Hopkins, worked for a while as a pathologist in Panama shortly after the start of William Gorgas' antimalaria campaign; after serving as a professor at the University of California, he went to Rochester in 1921 as head of a school that was still only a bleak patch of earth. An awesome but beloved figure ("When he comes into a classroom,'' a student...
...Cannon, 62, board chairman of Fletcher Aviation Corp., retired veteran of 32 years' service with the Air Force, postwar commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; of a heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif. Trainer of hundreds of military pilots (among his pupils: Generals Nathan F. Twining, Hoyt Vandenberg, Curtis E. LeMay), four-star Uncle Joe won renown as one of World War II's great tactical airmen; devised "Operation Strangle," which severed Nazi rail transport to central Italy in preparation for the push on Rome...
Then Neuberger quoted his old friend, Publisher Palmer Hoyt (Denver Post), on the fact that the Neubergers had comprised 15% of the tiny Democratic delegation in Republican Salem. "I've heard of politicians caucusing in a telephone booth," Hoyt had said, "but it's the first time I've known you could caucus in bed." Having run through his quips, the new Senator proceeded to batter those politicians who had resorted to "character assassination" in 1954-to the acute annoyance of Republicans in his audience. Washington's fleeting mood of bipartisan sweetness and light was jarred...
...that Harriman would win by a comfortable 8.8% margin in its last poll, reduced his lead to 5.2% in its "weighted" figures. He actually led by less than 1%. In New Jersey, the Princeton poll predicted a landslide for Democratic Senatorial Candidate Howell, who lost to Republican Case. Palmer Hoyt's Denver Post predicted in its poll that Democratic Senatorial Candidate Carroll would win, but he was beaten by Republican Allott. Said the New York Daily Mirror: "The polls were all wrong, including the one published in the Mirror...
Most were sailing craft, but for Richard Hoyt, onetime board chairman of Curtiss-Wright, Nevins built the high-powered Teaser, which raced the crack 20th Century Limited from Albany to New York...