Word: millers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditionally strong weight department, "Chief" Miller and Bill Jackson will handle the shotput, while Jack Fisher, John Thorndike, and newcomer Sam Felton will throw the 35 pound hammer...
RICHMOND P. MILLER...
Five of Denver's radio stations chipped in a daily hour apiece (staggered through the day); newspapers printed "classroom" schedules. Director Allen Miller of the Rocky Mountain Radio Council auditioned 200 teachers, picked the pleasantest voices. With teachers looking over their shoulders, scriptwriters pressure-cooked daily programs about music, art, English, history, math. Sample, delivered in the best soap-opera style: a science story about a little girl who hears a newscast announcing the coal strike, gets her father (by coincidence, a chemist) to tell her all about coal...
...Wages. In 1938 he turned up in the Lincolnshire town of Grantham as works manager of the Hispano-Suiza 20-mm. cannon works (later the British Manufacture and Research Co.). With him Kendall brought a picaresque legend: a Yorkshire miller's son, he had run away to sea at 14, made $5,000 helping police raid opium dens along China's Yangtze River, run a waterfront cabaret in Shanghai. Eventually he ended up in Philadelphia as a steeplejack. Later he went to work for Philadelphia's Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. He rapidly rose to Budd...
Meanwhile the Boston glob's Vern Miller '42 also had something to say. quoting Captain Cleo O'Donnell at Monday's football writers luncheon at the Hotel Kenmore, the former Varsity tackle put these words in Cleo's mouth: "At times this year we were troubled by the fact that service men don't take to coaching. Any sort of hounding, no matter how good the intention, was resented by the players. It took us all year to iron things...