Word: lane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Manhattan last week trooped 221 delegates to the National Contesters' Association's fourth annual convention. This week, as a polite gesture to the assembled contesters, CBS's Professor Quiz will entertain on his program two hotshots of the organization: paper-thin, 28-year-old Everett Lane, founder and past president, and Joan Lambert, head of the All-American Contestar School of Willow Grove, Pa., which has about 2,000 students...
...Yale home-and-home series is scheduled for Friday evening, October 25. Payson Wolff '42, Richard Lane '41 and John Tully '42 will talk for the New Deal in New Haven and Eliot Snider '41, James J. Pattee '41, and Arthur Northrup '42 will speak for Willkie at the Boston Harvard Club...
...Monroe, acting Housemaster; and W. Donald McSweeney, House Committee chairman, acted as greeters for the new Sophomores at the first House meeting last Wednesday. Richard S. Lane '41 spoke on the "Deacons' Testament", Thomas F. McGann, Jr. '41 on the dances, and E. M. Moffat, Jr. '41 on the House Dramatic Club...
Cherubic, soft-voiced William Lane Austin, director of the Bureau of the Census, met newsmen in the long, hot conference room of the Department of Commerce Building and made public his figures. Total population of the U. S. as of April 1, he announced, was 131,409,881. To his report of last spring's painstaking national nose count, he had few remarks to add. Chiefly he wanted to focus attention on what he considered the Census' most striking fact: from 1930 to 1940 the U. S. had shown the lowest rate of increase in population...
Last July, Seattle opened its floating bridge, the longest, oddest pontoon bridge in the world. Its four-lane concrete highway, one and a quarter miles long, is the deck of 25 cement pontoons. The bridge actually floats, seven feet deep, in the water. As if the engineers had not had a hard enough job, they had also to include a draw-span, to take care of lake shipping. The draw-span section is made up of two pontoons. One forms a Y, the other floats between its arms, sliding out to close the bridge, slipping in to leave 200 feet...