Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Melvin T. Copeland, George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, heads the list in seniority. Copeland, who has been a member of the Business School faculty for 44 years, was chairman of the Advisory Council to the U.S. Senate Trade Policies Commission in 1947. In all, five of the eight retiring professors have taught at the University over 30 years...
...group I graduate class, Gordon K. Lewis 1G was awarded a prize of $300. Kenneth S. Lynn, II 5G won a prize of $300 in the group II social studies division. Honorable mention was awarded to Melvin Richer 6G. James B. Hendrickson 3G was awarded the $300 prize in the group III natural sciences division...
...Love Melvin (MGM) is a Technicolored song & dance show with little to offer except the animated presence of Donald O'Connor. Cast as a photographer's brash assistant whose main job is lugging flashbulbs, O'Connor falls head over dancing heels in love with a pretty Broadway chorine (Debbie Reynolds),and boastfully promises to get her picture on the cover of his magazine. For the next several issues, photographs of prizefighters, puppies and horses keep appearing on the magazine cover with increasingly monotonous regularity-but never one of the chorine. Does Debbie ever...
...course of I Love Melvin, pert Debbie Reynolds impersonates a football in a gridiron dance number. Donald O Connor does a tap dance on roller skates and goes through some amusing rapid costume changes in a photographer's gallery. But the picture leaves O'Connor's musical-comedy talents largely untapped...
...onetime chief censor and public-information officer of the Eighth Army in Korea, Lieut. Colonel Melvin Voorhees, 50, was determined to carry out a very unmilitary project. Despite the objections of his superiors, and while still on active duty, Reservist Voorhees insisted on publishing a book called Korean Tales, in which he rapped both the military brass and the press for what he thought were their shortcomings in Korea. As a result of ignoring the Army's orders, Colonel Voorhees, an ex-reporter and editor on the defunct Tacoma Times, was ordered to stand trial on charges...