Word: miltons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born 55 years ago in the Italian province of Catanzaro, white-maned Giuseppe Donato has long enlivened Philadelphia with artistic disputation. In 1915 he sued Chocolate Tycoon Milton Snavely Hershey for refusing to accept a marble group called Dance of Eternal Spring which he had ordered for a fountain on his front lawn. A jury awarded Sculptor Donato $25,000. Mr. Hershey persuaded the City of Harrisburg to take the Donato fountain. Cried he: "I don't want this damned thing anywhere in Hershey...
When President Angell went to Yale, the institution was a university largely by courtesy. The Medical School was almost literally a shack. Pathologist Milton Charles ("Nitzy") Winternitz became Dean of the Medical School in 1920. Encouraged by the new President, financed by Rockefeller and University money, he boosted the school in a decade to one of the nation's finest...
...famed Tommy Milton climbed into a coupe, crossed the starting line followed by 33 low-slung little racers, humming along in ranks of three, spaced 100 feet apart. After one slow "pacing lap," the coupe pulled off the track and the starter waved a green flag. Then, with a roar of opening throttles, the 500-mile Memorial Day automobile race began...
...pushing up their goggles, the drivers of the 15 cars that had finished the race slowly became conscious of a roar other than the one made by their motors, that of the crowd to salute the winner. Louis Meyer of Huntington Park, Calif., who in 1933 became, with Tommy Milton, the only two-time winner of the Indianapolis race, had won it for the third time. His average speed (109.069 m.p.h.) was a new record for the event.. Driver Meyer waved three bruised fingers to salute the crowd, collected vouchers for $20,000 first prize...
Successor to Milton G. Green '36, Schmidt is the second hurdler to captain the team in two years. His roommate, Charles W. Hubbard '37 succeeds John W. Bryant '36 as Varsity manager...