Word: lafe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lafe Parks stuck to his school, hobbling out from the hospital on crutches to quell a mutiny of the dozen students, who wanted their money back. Persuasive Parks, a better talker than he had been a pilot, talked them...
...Lafe Parks became a Catholic, has energetically performed good works for the St. Louis archdiocese ever since. Though no graduate, Parks raised $2,000,000 for St. Louis (Catholic) University. Last week Parks, 47, now Midwest distributor for Ercoupe planes, presented his $3,000,000 Parks Air College lock, stock & barrel to St. Louis University. Then he traded in his president's title for a $1-a-year job as dean of the university's new college of aviation...