Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey's former Republican Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, 58, onetime head of the House Un-American Activities Committee, who served a nine-month federal penitentiary stretch in 1949-50 for padding his Congressional payroll and taking kickbacks, was homesick for the Capitol. He said that he is "thinking about the possibility" of running for Congress again. In strongly Republican Bergen County, where many onetime Thomas constituents are still convinced that J. Parnell was framed by vengeful leftists, the possibility did not seem outlandish...
...University of Alabama's Fullback Tommy Lewis of Greenville, Ala. is a solid (6 ft. 190 Ibs.), steady-looking athlete, but under his crimson jersey there burns an impulsive pride of state and university. When Tommy Lewis, 21, was taken out for a rest in the second quarter of the Cotton Bowl game with Rice last week, his Alabama was trailing by only one point. Lewis himself had scored a first-quarter touchdown for the Crimson Tide. But soon, from his seat on the bench, Tommy saw real trouble coming: far downfield, on the 5-yd. line, Rice...
...held in complete subjection by gun-toting musclemen, began openly attending A.F.L. meetings. But even so, A.F.L. President George Meany expected that his new union would be completely snowed under last week when the NLRB held an election to name a bargaining agent for the New York and New Jersey piers...
October: Under heavy criticism over the new parietal rules, the Housemasters will reveal that Ivy League parietal rules are not made individually, but based on a handicap system. Handicaps are determined by a committee located in Princeton, New Jersey. Therefore, the shrinkage in hours, the Housemasters will explain, were actually an added handicap put on Harvard men because of their superiority over Yale and Princeton in matters of virility...
...Frank Abrams, 64, who worked his way up from a $75-a-month job as a draftsman for the Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) to the $1500,000-a-year board chairmanship, announced his retirement. To avoid being "just another guy on the street," Abrams laid plans to keep busy by: 1) taking an assignment with the new Hoover Commission to streamline federal civil service. 2) helping to raise funds for colleges (he founded the Council for Financial Aid to Education...