Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HIGH-SPEED TURNPIKES will stretch from New York to Chicago by November. New $27 million bridge across Delaware River opened for traffic last week, connecting New Jersey Turnpike with Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpikes, running to Indiana state line. The 160-mile Indiana Turnpike to Chicago will be completed this fall. Toll cost for 825-mile New York to Chicago trip: about...
...America, etc.-come up to any secular standard; the layman-edited monthly Jubilee is a tasteful slick picture magazine, and an infusion of trained lay journalists has given many of the diocesan papers both professional polish and a telling effect in their communities. Last week the association honored New Jersey's weekly Advocate (circ. 96,881) for a crusade against firms operating on Sunday that cost the paper $45,000 in canceled ads, but succeeded in getting the legislature to ban Sunday used-car sales. Another prizewinner: Cleveland's Catholic Universe Bulletin (circ. 90,795), which campaigned successfully...
Robert C. Milton, '56 of Winthrop House and Worcester has been awarded the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship for 1956-57. He will spend next year as Harvard Scholar at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, England...
...studentship was established in 1942 by the Associated Harvard Clubs in memory of a graduate who was killed in World War I. A collateral descendent of John Harvard, de Jersey was killed in action while serving with British troops at Arras...
...opposites. Pint-sized Bert is a gabby, obnoxious supersalesman who shouts his commercials, scolds the audience and continually squelches Stringbean Harry. After a few seconds of bumptious Bert, viewers feel so sorry for well-meaning Harry that they listen carefully to every word he has to say. A New Jersey woman even wrote in to upbraid the brewery for the "loud, offensive" way in which Bert bullies his brother...