Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minneapolis, TIME "stringer" Jay Edgerton buttonholed Frank Oppenheimer, University of Minnesota physicist, whose near-hero worship for his older brother blossomed after hours of conversation. It was a rewarding interview, out of which came a warm picture of the Oppenheimer family life and many a revealing anecdote about Robert...
...storm pounded on against the sturdy barns of Iowa's rich farms, on up into Minnesota, out over the Great Lakes. It drove boats and ships aground. Unburdened of snow, the winds whipped along the border country and on east to the sea. In Buffalo, the gale tumbled a 75-ton coal crane from its tracks, sent it plunging 60 feet through a transformer building. At Painted Post, N.Y., in a final slap, the wind knocked over an iron statue of an Indian which had stood since...
...turned out some pretty fair teams, as may be gathered from the three-year record of the squads Nelson played on. Minnesota was the only team which gave real trouble, winning the Little Brown Jug game three straight times. Indiana (in 1941) was the only other team to beat Michigan over the same stretch...
...Valpey through his father-in-law, Ozzie Cowles, who was basketball coach in 1947 at Michigan, and is now mentor at Minnesota. After graduating from Iowa Teachers, Ben discovered there was a dearth of high school coaching jobs in Iowa. He went east to Michigan both to visit his wife's family, and to locate a coaching...
Professor Henry Nash Smith of the University of Minnesota, present head of the executive committee, was renamed to lead the reorganized group at the Saturday meeting...