Word: marooning
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Just for a laugh, one day last month, the University of Chicago's student paper, the Maroon, put out a gag issue with the banner headline: HUTCHINS OUT! A few days later, Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins bumped into the Maroon's editor on the street. "You know," said he, "after that issue, no one will believe it when I really do leave...
Robert Hutchins was talking more closely to events than the Maroon's editor suspected. Though only two or three of his trustees knew it, he had actually been thinking for the past six weeks of handing in his resignation. His old friend Paul Hoffman had asked him to become an associate director of the $250 million Ford Foundation (TIME, Oct. 2). Last week, after thinking the offer over, Hutchins decided to say yes. "The University of Chicago," said he, "deserves a better deal. There's no reason why the university should be committed to me at 51 because...
Down to a bunting-draped Milwaukee depot one morning last week rode 75 bewhiskered, top-hatted men and hoopskirted women in three horse-drawn wagons. They piled into two yellow and maroon coaches and set off for a round trip to Wauwatosa, five miles westward, hauled by the same tiny, puffing "Old No. 1" locomotive that made the same trip to Wauwatosa 100 years ago. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad-whose tracks now cover 11,000 miles and reach through twelve states from Chicago to Seattle-was celebrating its centennial...
Both lines were helplessly mired on the rain-soaked gridiron for most of the contest. The edge lay in the backfield, where the Maroon and White had two very fast halfbacks in Bob Emerson and Mickey Howe, as well as fleet and long-passing quarterback Ernie Degutis...
...Maroon and White, which works from an unbalanced T, has a one and two record thus far. It beat Nichols Junior College, lost to Mount Hermon, and last week held Brandeis to a 6-6 tie until late in the game, but lost...