Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hubert Conover Foster '49 of Westfield, New Jersey and Leverett House was yesterday named manager of next year's varsity baseball team. The announcement was made by Peter N. Toulmin '50, present varsity manager...
Later, he and his wife moved to Teaneck, N.J., and then to a Manhattan apartment on 97th Street just off Riverside Drive. Their friends, who dropped in for informal Sunday-night literary sessions, included Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Captain George (now Sir Hubert) Wilkins, Poets Constance Lindsay Skinner, Sara Teasdale, Horace Gregory; literary critic-to-be Lewis Gannett; Author and Geographer Earl Parker Hanson; Latin celebrities like the painter Zuloaga and famed Bullfighter Juan Belmonte...
...called neomycin. Like streptomycin, it is derived from actinomycetes. a group of tiny organisms that are in a twilight evolutionary zone between molds and bacteria. The first preliminary tests made since it was developed last summer look good; it may, eventually, prove better than streptomycin. Dr. Waksman and Hubert A. Lechevalier, a graduate student who worked with him, reported their discovery in Science...
Dazed but by no means dazzled, Mrs. Hubert said firmly: "It hasn't changed my routine of living and it isn't going to. I've had a car and a good life before." Then, settling down to counting her winnings, Mrs. Hubert decided to keep: a $1,000 U.S. savings bond; a man's and woman's wardrobe, each valued at $1,500; a year's supply of candy, flowers, shaving lotion and cologne; free haircuts for five years; a $1,200 living room suite; a $1,000 radio-phonograph-television...
...Hubert remains undecided about the disposal of: a $3,000 diamond ring and a $1,000 star sapphire; a $2,500 diamond watch; a custom-built $1,000 kitchen ("If it's more modern than mine, I'll take it"); a $425 record library; an ermine jacket, hat and muff; a one-year scholarship to the Berkshire Hills girls school; a $2,850 trip to Paris and Monte Carlo ("I'd rather go somewheres else-like California...