Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jersey Charles R. Howell, aided by a split in the Republican ranks, appeared to have defeated liberal Republican Clifford Case. Case had not conceded, however, and was only 1,000 votes behind at press time...
...year history, it has turned out such alumni as Poet Archibald MacLeish, Yale President Whitney Griswold, former New Jersey Governor Charles Edison, Henry Ford II. Today, over its 480-acre Georgian campus, its 353 students still pursue their education with an intensity most any school would envy. It takes in boys of every race and religion, makes them clean their own rooms and wait on table. But more important than its disciplined democracy is the quality of its intellectual fare. The boys are taken up through calculus and analytic geometry, read everything from the Iliad (in Greek) to Racine...
Fitting the varied shapes of Vogue readers, says Editor Chase, was simple. "There was one [size], and it was a 36." During the war and the roaring '203, Editor Chase gave Vogue readers the first news of the slowly rising hem line, of the first Chanel jersey cloth from Paris trimmed with rabbit fur. Vogue organized the first big New York fashion show, with models parading the clothes a la Paris, and was pleased to report that it was an instant...
...good part of last week vigorously denying that it was in any way responsible for juvenile delinquency. During two days of hearings in Washington before the Senate Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee, children's TV programs were roundly damned and defended. Richard Clendenen, executive director of the committee, told New Jersey's Senator Robert Hendrickson and a jampacked hearing room that grammar-school children spend from 22 to 27 hours a week looking at TV. Then excerpts from TV films shown in an average Washington week were thrown on the screen. Some highlights in the nontelevised proceedings...
...Field in 1903, the Crimson barely managed to avoid an upset after Warner's legendary hidden-ball play had given the Indians an early lead. The Braves were returning a kickoff when the whole team came together on the seven-yard line and the ball was slipped up the jersey of Charlie Dillon, a Sioux Indian from South Dakota. Then a flying wedge was formed and Dillon scored to put Carlisle ahead, 11 to 0. Harvard finally did win, however, by a score...