Word: jersey
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Coming from a small, respectable prep school in New Jersey, Reed hoped to throw himself into Harvard life with the same success that had made him Big Man at Morristown Prep...
...endorse pro-business candidates. Headed by Admiral Ben Moreell, who retires this week as chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., ACA counts among its trustees Armstrong Cork Co. Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr.; former Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chairman General Robert Wood; McGraw-Edison Co. Chairman (and former New Jersey Democratic Governor) Charles Edison. In Los Angeles County, Republicans have recruited 120 companies to send in names of young executives who want to work for the party; the G.O.P. teaches them practical politics, gives them precinct assignments...
Unaccountably, It Rolled. Everything seemed normal as Engineer Lloyd F. Wilburn, 63, pulled out of Elizabethport at 9:57, right on schedule, with a wave to Towerman Joe Halliday, and headed east toward Newark Bay and the Jersey Central's 1.4-mile, four-track trestle and drawbridge...
...week's end the toll had risen to 48 dead, some 50 injured. And the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission belatedly ordered ''dead man" devices-which automatically halt a train when the engineer relaxes control-installed on all passenger trains...
Died. George ("Snuffy") Stirnweiss, 38, American League batting champion in 1945 with a lowly .309 average, infielder (1943-51) for the New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Cleveland Indians; in the Jersey Central train wreck at Newark Bay (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...